Use the -c option of the pdfssetup command to initialize the management partition.
The example below shows how to initialize /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1FUJITSU_300000370105 as the management partition.
# pdfssetup -c /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1FUJITSU_300000370105 <Enter>
See
Refer to pdfssetup under "Appendix A Command Reference" in the "Primesoft Distributed File System for Hadoop V1 User's Guide" for details of the pdfssetup command.