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Add volumes.rst #34
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Interacting with Volumes on OpenPOWER | ||
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Each Operating System interacts with the volumes attached to it in various ways. | ||
The most common ways to interact with volumes are through packaged programs such | ||
as ``fdisk``, ``mount``/``umount``, and other LVM commands. Alongside these packages, | ||
there are other packages that are necessary to view and allow the system to properly | ||
interact with the volumes that the user is attempting to manipulate. | ||
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Volumes on ppc64 | ||
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One of the most crucial packages for proper POWER volume management is ``ppc64-diag``. | ||
There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. "actually being able to use volumes on POWER platform" sounds better than "proper POWER volume management" |
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The following is a table showing which images on openpower-controller.osuosl.org have | ||
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this package pre-installed: | ||
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.. csv-table:: | ||
:header: "OS", "``ppc64-diag``" | ||
:widths: 12, 15 | ||
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"Debian", "no" | ||
"CentOS", "yes" | ||
"Ubuntu", "no" | ||
"Fedora", "yes" | ||
"OpenSUSE", "no" | ||
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For some distributions, ``ppc64-diag`` is not available in the stable repository. In example: | ||
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for Debian, ``ppc64-diag`` only exists in the *"stretch"* packages, and for OpenSUSE, | ||
``ppc64-diag`` is only available in the *"Tumbleweed"* packages. So if you are running an | ||
older version of Debian or OpenSUSE such as *"jessie"* or *"Leap"*, you will need to install | ||
``ppc64-diag`` from another, potentially unstable version. |
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ppc64 and ppc64le. We are covering Big Endian as well as Little Endian