Quick Answer: How Install and Configure Multipath in Linux?

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Contents How Do I Install Multipathing? Multipath Setup Overview Install the Multipath-Tools and Multipath-Tools-Boot Packages. Create an Empty Config File...

Quick Answer: How Install and Configure Multipath in Linux?
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How do I install multipathing?

Multipath Setup Overview

  1. Install the multipath-tools and multipath-tools-boot packages.
  2. Create an empty config file called /etc/multipath. conf.
  3. Edit the multipath. conf file to modify default values and save the updated file.
  4. Start the multipath daemon.
  5. Update initial ramdisk.

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Procedure

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  2. Edit the blacklist section of the /etc/multipath. conf file to include this device. …
  3. Reload the updated /etc/multipath.conf file: # systemctl reload multipathd.service.
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