Created 5/9/2017 aaron.enfield
If a disk has never been seen by Swarm and it boots into a Swarm chassis, the disk will automatically format on bootup (or insertion in the case of hot plug).
If a disk has been retired from a cluster and needs to be reformatted, you need to access the System Menu System Menu on the Swarm storage node via remote terminal or Keyboard/ Monitor.
NOTE: To reformat even a single drive through this interface, the entire chassis will need to be taken offline during this process.
Choose Choose 4. SYSTEM CONTROLSystem Control; then choose choose 3. STOP STORAGE PROCESSESStop storage processes.
Confirm that choice by choosing YESchoosing Yes.
At that point, you should see STORAGE PROCESSESsee Storage Processes: STOPPED
Then choose choose 2. DISK VOLUMESDisk Volumes
Arrow down to the disk in question and press "Ff"
The prompt will ask you to type: FORMAT to to continue. There There is no formatting actually taking place at this point, so do not expect a delay. The The disk is being marked for re-format on next boot.
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The disk will be reformatted as the as the chassis mounts.