Create a new File system in SUSE Linux

To be able to prepare S/4 1709 installation, we'll have to find the fastest HDD within the VM. Currently the SSDs are being used by S/4 1610, further more, even though S/4 1610's /hana disk was configured as 'thin provisioning', but there was one time that the HANA log files keep growing which fills up the 500GB disks.

Later we've cleaned those log files and configured HANA to run in a non-logging mode, but the already allocated space cannot be reclaimed from VMWare (this is weird, right?), disregarding it's configured as thin provisioning.

So to be able to relase those HDD space, we'll add a third 500GB disk from VMWare, then manually copy those HANA files to the new disk, rename mount point. After that we can delete the old 500GB SSD and ready for 1709 installation.

Old disk in VM "EVO_SSO_1TB_3"
New disk will be created in "WD_STAT_BLACK_4TB_2"

SharkS4HDB:~ # echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
SharkS4HDB:~ # tail -20 /var/log/messagesFAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25 ns, offset 127)
2017-09-19T15:16:04.950659+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.339683] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] 1048576000 512-byte logical blocks: (536 GB/500 GiB)
2017-09-19T15:16:04.950661+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.339696] sd 0:0:2:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
2017-09-19T15:16:04.950662+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.339719] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
2017-09-19T15:16:04.950664+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.339722] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 61 00 00 00
2017-09-19T15:16:04.950665+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.339761] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Cache data unavailable
2017-09-19T15:16:04.950666+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.339763] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
2017-09-19T15:16:04.954621+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.341633] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Cache data unavailable
2017-09-19T15:16:04.954634+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.341638] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
2017-09-19T15:16:04.954636+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.341843]  sdc: unknown partition table
2017-09-19T15:16:04.954637+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.342090] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Cache data unavailable
2017-09-19T15:16:04.954638+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.342092] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
2017-09-19T15:16:04.954651+00:00 SharkS4HDB kernel: [15844380.342120] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk

SharkS4HDB:~ # fdisk /dev/sdc

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Device does not contain a recognized partition table.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x55ccbe07.

Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdc: 500 GiB, 536870912000 bytes, 1048576000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x55ccbe07

Command (m for help): n
Partition type
   p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
   e   extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1):
First sector (2048-1048575999, default 2048):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-1048575999, default 1048575999):

Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 500 GiB.

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

SharkS4HDB:~ # which mkfs.ext3
/sbin/mkfs.ext3
SharkS4HDB:~ # mkfs.ext3 -L HANA /dev/sdc1

SharkS4HDB:~ # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/system/swap_lv  swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
UUID=eb012ca9-8e45-45f9-adee-4861fa9c11af /                    btrfs      defaults              0 0
UUID=ebb1138f-e5f0-4419-93c3-6b6ee0d1b69c /boot                btrfs      defaults              0 0
/dev/sdb                /hana           ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc1               /hana1          ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 auto,user,ro 0 0
FILESHR:/E              /mnt/share      nfs auto,rw 0 0
SharkS4HDB:~ # df -k
Filesystem                  1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/system-root_lv   54517760  24207368  29902072  45% /
devtmpfs                     99237960         0  99237960   0% /dev
tmpfs                        99246340        80  99246260   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                        99246340    108376  99137964   1% /run
tmpfs                        99246340         0  99246340   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sr0                      5047630   5047630         0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/sda1                     1051648     65996    869844   8% /boot
/dev/sdb                    515930552 104783008 384933144  22% /hana
FILESHR:/E                 1073608704 631746432 441862272  59% /mnt/share
/dev/sdc1                   515929528     71580 489643600   1% /hana1