* 2.6TB Storage Size Problem
@ 2007-10-31 2:35 paul.lkw
2007-10-31 2:48 ` Nathan Scott
2007-10-31 3:30 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
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From: paul.lkw @ 2007-10-31 2:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xfs
Dear all:
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?
THX for all. ^_^
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* Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem
2007-10-31 2:35 2.6TB Storage Size Problem paul.lkw
@ 2007-10-31 2:48 ` Nathan Scott
2007-10-31 3:30 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
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From: Nathan Scott @ 2007-10-31 2:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paul.lkw; +Cc: xfs
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 19:35 -0700, paul.lkw wrote:
>
> size should be 2.5xxxTB, but however I just have 2.0T as EXT-3
> limitation (I
DOS partition size limitation more likely - use a different
partitioning scheme, or just don't partition the device.
cheers.
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* Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem
2007-10-31 2:35 2.6TB Storage Size Problem paul.lkw
2007-10-31 2:48 ` Nathan Scott
@ 2007-10-31 3:30 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2007-10-31 4:07 ` paul.lkw
2007-11-01 18:58 ` Emmanuel Florac
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain @ 2007-10-31 3:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paul.lkw; +Cc: xfs
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).
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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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* Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem
2007-10-31 3:30 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
@ 2007-10-31 4:07 ` paul.lkw
2007-10-31 4:12 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2007-11-01 18:58 ` Emmanuel Florac
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From: paul.lkw @ 2007-10-31 4:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xfs
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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* Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem
2007-10-31 4:07 ` paul.lkw
@ 2007-10-31 4:12 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain @ 2007-10-31 4:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paul.lkw; +Cc: xfs
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 9:07pm, paul.lkw wrote
> Does it means I have to use one harddisk for just boot process ?
Yes, or use auto-carving if your RAID adapter supports it.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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* Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem
2007-10-31 3:30 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2007-10-31 4:07 ` paul.lkw
@ 2007-11-01 18:58 ` Emmanuel Florac
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Emmanuel Florac @ 2007-11-01 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joshua Baker-LePain; +Cc: paul.lkw, xfs
Le Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:30:04 -0400 (EDT) vous écriviez:
> 3) You can't boot from such a device (as neither grub nor lilo
> support gpt disklabels).
lilo does support booting from gpt on Debian since Sarge at least. I'd
be surprised if the CentOS build doesn't.
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Emmanuel Florac www.intellique.com
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