8.1.1 NSS Partitions

A partition is a logical division of a physical hard drive. In NetWare® 6.5 and later, NSS abstracts all partition creation and deletion in iManager and NSSMU through the Pools page and Software RAIDs page. When you create NSS pools or NSS software RAID devices, NSS automatically creates the NSS partitions on the devices you specify. In NetWare 6.5 SP2 and later, you can view and label these NSS partitions from the Partitions page.

Partitions are managed below iManager and NSSMU by the following partition management tools:

8.1.2 Viewing Partitions on a Device

The Partitions page in iManager reports the partitions that it finds on your system and information about them. Select a device to view information about the partition in the Details area.

Figure 8-1 Example Partitions Management Page

8.1.3 Understanding Types of Partitions

The following table describes the variety of partition types that iManager reports as being on your system. The Linux partition types are found only on OES Linux servers, not on OES NetWare servers.

The Partitions function in iManager and NSSMU is intended simply as a reporting tool so that you can see the types of partitions that are being virtualized by higher-level storage entities such as pools or software RAID devices. Generally, you cannot create or modify partitions with iManager or NSSMU tools. On NetWare, NSSMU allows you to create an NSS partition, but this capability is seldom used. For NSS on either platform, NSS partitions are created for you automatically when you create a pool. There might be multiple NSS partitions that are aggregated and managed underneath the single pool of space. Similarly, the tools creates a Virtual Device automatically when you create a RAID device.

8.1.4 Understanding Partition Details

You can view the following information about partitions: