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vflashpartition

Description

Manages the partitions on the vFlash SD card.

NOTE:

  • To run this subcommand, you must have the iDRAC Enterprise license.
  • After iDRAC restart, the status of the previous operation performed on the partition(s) is erased.

Synopsis

racadm vflashpartition <create | delete | status | list> -i<index>
-o<label> -e<emulation type> -s<size> -f<format type> -t<partition type>
-l<path> -u<user> -p<password> -a

Input

  • -o — Label that is displayed when the partition is mounted on the operating system. This option must be a string of up to six alphanumeric characters. VFLASH is the only accepted volume label for non-Dell SD card.
  • -e — Emulation type must be either floppy, cddvd, or hdd.
  • floppy — emulates a floppy disk
  • cddvd — emulates a CD or DVD
  • hdd — emulates a hard disk
  • -s — Partition size in MB.
  • -f — Format type for the partition based on the type of the file system. Valid options are raw, ext2, ext3, fat16, and fat32.
  • -t — Create a partition of the following type:
  • empty — Creates an empty partition
  • image — Creates a partition using an image relative to iDRAC. Creation of a partition may be unsuccessful if:
    • The network share is not reachable.
    • The user name or password provided is not correct.
    • The file provided does not exist.
    • The memory available on the SD card is lesser than size of the image file.
  • -l — Specifies the remote path relative to iDRAC.
  • -u — User name for accessing the remote image.
  • -p — Password for accessing the remote image.
  • -a — Display the status of operations on all the existing partitions.
  • list — Lists the existing partitions and its properties.

Output/Example

Create a 20MB empty partition.

racadm vflashpartition create -i 1 -o Drive1 -e hdd -t empty -f fat16 -s 20

Create a partition from a remote image.

racadm vflashpartition create -i 1 -o Drive1 -e cddvd -t image -l //ipaddress/sharefolder/isoimge.iso -u username -p xxx

A new partition is created. By default, the created partition is read-only. This command is case-sensitive for the image filename extension. If the filename extension is in uppercase, for example FOO.ISO instead of FOO.iso, then the command returns a syntax error.

NOTE:

  • This feature is not supported in Local RACADM.
  • Creating vFlash partition from an image file on the CFS or NFS IPv6 enabled network share is not supported.

Delete a partition.

racadm vflashpartition delete -i 1

Status of operation on partition 1.

racadm vflashpartition status -i 1

Status of all the existing partitions.

racadm vflashpartition status -a

List all the existing partitions and its properties.

racadm vflashpartition list