From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934675AbXGMO7Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:59:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759536AbXGMO7Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:59:16 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:4741 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757394AbXGMO7P (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:59:15 -0400 Message-ID: <46979342.3030203@rtr.ca> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:59:14 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Freund Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB References: <4697760E.4070803@e-dict.net> In-Reply-To: <4697760E.4070803@e-dict.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Freund wrote: > Hi > > I've got a RAID5 (driver aacraid for an ICP9047MA) with four > 750GB hdds which provides a 2.25TB sized device. > None of the until now used tools will work with that device. > fdisk complains about missing cylinder count. > cfdisk misses the device size. > parted shows the right device size but only creates a partion > with 51GB. > What am I supposed to do to work with this device? Create a single RAID which covers the entire drive set (as it sounds like you have already done). Then use LVM on top of that, instead of conventional partitions. -ml