Partitioning a SCSI device

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 LPAR mode z/VM guest

You can partition SCSI devices that are attached through an FCP channel in the same way that you can partition SCSI attached devices on other platforms.

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Use the fdisk command to partition a SCSI disk, not fdasd.

udev creates device nodes for partitions automatically. For the SCSI disk /dev/sda, the partition device nodes are called /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3, and so on.

Example

To partition a SCSI disk with a device node /dev/sda issue:

# fdisk /dev/sda