Completing Basic Administrative Tasks

(Updated: Feb 2010)

Procedures for these basic Lustre administration tasks can be found in the Lustre Operations Manual by clicking on the links below:
 * Section 13.1: Mounting by Label
 * Section 13.2: Starting Lustre
 * Section 13.3: Mounting a Server
 * Section 13.4: Unmounting a Server
 * Section 13.5: Specifying Failout/Failover Mode for OSTs
 * Section 13.6: Handling Degraded OST RAID Arrays
 * Section 13.7: Running Multiple Lustre File Systems
 * Section 13.8: Setting and Retrieving Lustre Parameters
 * Section 13.9: Specifying NIDs and Failover
 * Section 13.10: Erasing a File System
 * Section 13.11: Reclaiming Reserved Disk Space
 * Section 13.12: Replacing an Existing OST or MDS
 * Section 13.13: Identifying to Which Lustre File an OST Object Belongs

For more information about the system configuration utilities mkfs.lustre, tunefs.lustre, lctl, and mount.lustre used in many of these procedures, see Lustre System Configuration Utilities.