From: "paul.lkw" <paul.lkw@mfun.org>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:07:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13502504.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.0.9999.0710302328250.29151@hogwarts.egr.duke.edu>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2007-10-31 4:12 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2007-11-01 18:58 ` Emmanuel Florac
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