4.1. Format Drives

By default, all new drives should be automatically formatted once the NVMesh cluster is deployed.

Drives that were already formatted by a previous cluster deployment will not be formatted and will be automatically evicted, To erase any previous data and re-use the drives they will need to be manually formatted.

Manually Formatting Drives: Use the official guide and format drives, typically all, in the cluster, see Format Drives.

Disable Automatic Formatting of Drives: Automatic formatting of drives can be disabled by adding the following flag to the NVMesh resource spec:

spec:
  management:
    disableAutoFormatDrives: true