Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem

["paul.lkw" <paul.lkw@mfun.org>]

Does it means I have to use one harddisk for just boot process ?


Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 7:35pm, paul.lkw wrote
> 
>> I have a DELL server with a hardware raid controller card and 6 x 750GB
>> Harddisk, and I configured it as a Raid-5 (5 x 750GB) and 1 of HotSpare.
>> I
>> partitioned 50GB of the main base CentOS system and the remain
>> unpartitioned
>> size should be 2.5xxxTB, but however I just have 2.0T as EXT-3 limitation
>> (I
>> think), How can I use the full size of this with LVM?
> 
> This has been answered many times on the CentOS list:
> 
> 1) On a device larger than 2.0TB, you must use a gpt disklabel rather than
>     the default msdos.
> 
> 2) You must use parted when partitioning such a device.
> 
> 3) You can't boot from such a device (as neither grub nor lilo support gpt
>     disklabels).
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
> UCSF
> 
> 
> 
> 

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