How to Set Up the Hard Drive on an Acme Packet 4500 or 3800

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Update Date:	2017-07-24
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Solution 1673263.1 : How to Set Up the Hard Drive on an Acme Packet 4500 or 3800

Applies to:

Acme Packet 4500 - Version S-Cx6.0.x and later
Acme Packet 3820 - Version S-Cx6.0.x and later
Acme Packet OS

Goal

When replacing a hard drive in a system, or in order to erase all data on a drive and start over, this procedure is necessary.

Also included here is an additional step to create a directory specifically for CDR storage. This is not required, but is often helpful to separate these files from the others on the drive.

Solution

BEFORE YOU BEGIN:

Formatting a hard drive in any release should be an offline activity. Through the console connection the customer should:

1. back up the config,
2. delete the config and
3. reboot before formatting.

Also, the please close any other open connections and cease any other connections to the box such as SSH scripts.
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Setting up Hard-drive on Acme Packets 4500

1. Format the hard-drive

av450001sda# format hard-disk

WARNING: Please ensure device is not currently in use by any applications before proceeding

Continue [y/n]?: y

Use factory default partitions [y/n]?: n

Enter the number of partitions to create: 2

Total unallocated space = 100 %

Enter the name of volume 1 (or 'q' to quit): app

Enter the size of the volume (in %): 80

Total unallocated space = 20 %

Enter the name of volume 2 (or 'q' to quit): sys

Enter the size of the volume (in %): 20

The following partitions will be created:

/app 400086289612 bytes

/sys 100021572403 bytes

Format disk and create the partitions as configured above [y/n]?: y

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WARNING: All data on the drive will be permanently

erased and unrecoverable.

Are you sure [y/n]?: y

The format process will take a few minutes. Once

the format process begins, it cannot be stopped.

Please do not power down or reboot the SD until

the format process is complete.

Continue [y/n]?: y

*** Beginning format process ***

*** Removing previous partitions - please wait ***

/sata synced and unmounted

*** Creating new partitions - please wait ***

Instantiating /ahci00 as rawFs, device = 0x90001

Instantiating /app as rawFs, device = 0xc0001

Instantiating /sys as rawFs, device = 0xd0001

*** Begin format of volume /app - please wait ***

Formatting /app for DOSFS

Instantiating /app as rawFs, device = 0xc0001

Formatting...Retrieved old volume params with %38 confidence:

Volume Parameters: FAT type: FAT32, sectors per cluster 0

0 FAT copies, 0 clusters, 0 sectors per FAT

Sectors reserved 0, hidden 0, FAT sectors 0

Root dir entries 0, sysId (null) , serial number 278a0000

Label:" " ...

Disk with 781418925 sectors of 512 bytes will be formatted with:

Volume Parameters: FAT type: FAT32, sectors per cluster 16

2 FAT copies, 48790982 clusters, 381553 sectors per FAT

Sectors reserved 32, hidden 63, FAT sectors 763106

Root dir entries 0, sysId VX5DOS32, serial number 278a0000

Label:"/app " ...

Task 'tAhciSv002' [0x2f67aa4] has been deleted!

OK.

*** Begin format of volume /sys - please wait ***

Formatting /sys for DOSFS

Instantiating /sys as rawFs, device = 0xd0001

Formatting...Retrieved old volume params with %38 confidence:

Volume Parameters: FAT type: FAT32, sectors per cluster 0

0 FAT copies, 0 clusters, 0 sectors per FAT

Sectors reserved 0, hidden 0, FAT sectors 0

Root dir entries 0, sysId (null) , serial number c3f90000

Label:" " ...

Disk with 195354180 sectors of 512 bytes will be formatted with:

Volume Parameters: FAT type: FAT32, sectors per cluster 16

2 FAT copies, 12197706 clusters, 95388 sectors per FAT

Sectors reserved 32, hidden 63, FAT sectors 190776

Root dir entries 0, sysId VX5DOS32, serial number c3f90000

Label:"/sys " ...

OK.

Format finished successfully

New partitions have been created

av450001sda#

2. Create /cdr directory in the /app partition

In this step we will have to create "cdr" directory on /app partition for the 4500s to put the /app/cdr path in the account-config. This is where the CDRs will be stored.

You can create the "cdr" directory on /app using FTP. Example is below:

C:\Documents and Settings\BPatel>ftp 192.20.200.175 Connected to 192.20.200.175.

220 av450001sda FTP server (VxWorks 6.4) ready.

User (192.20.200.175:(none)): user

331 Password required for user.

Password:

230 User user logged in.

ftp> cd /app

250 CWD command successful.

ftp> dir

200 PORT command successful.

150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'file list'.

size date time name

-------- ------ ------ --------

0 Nov-02-2009 18:28:52 tmp.dat

226 Transfer complete.

ftp: 148 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 148000.00Kbytes/sec.

ftp> mkdir cdr

257 MKD command successful.

ftp> bye

3. Boot the system and verify the hard-disk partitioning

Type

# reboot

After the system comes back up, make sure all the partition information is in there. You can run below command to verify.

av450001sda# show space hard-disk

/app: 399695708160/399695762944 bytes (99%) remaining

/sys: 99923599360/99923646464 bytes (99%) remaining

av450001sda#

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