At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:45:34 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:
> > 2010/2/23 Khusro Jaleel <mailing-li...@kerneljack.com>: > > Hello, sorry for the long email, it's a little hard to explain this issue. > > The gist of it is that the Ubuntu version of parted allowed me to do > > something which perhaps should not be allowed i.e. creating partitions on a > > 2.7TB drive when the partition table is not *gpt* but *msdos*. > > > > I am trying to configure 2 identical servers, both are Dell Poweredge 2970 > > machines with 6 disks in them configured as a RAID 5 with one hotspare, and > > both give me 2.726TB of space after the RAID 5 is configured. There are > > slight differences between the BIOS versions and Firmware versions of the > > LSI disk controller, etc but I'm not sure that matters in this case. > > > > Now, I setup server "A" a few months ago and for some reason that I don't > > remember now I resorted to using a Ubuntu 64-bit LiveCD to create the > > partitions. Since the disk is larger than 2TB, I had to use 'parted' to > > create the partitions. So I happily created the partitions I wanted which > > are below: > > I think it is not possible to create partitions lager than 1.7TB > without gpt partition table. > > Of course you can create small boot partition and some lvm partitions > and combine them to one big lvm volume or use another drive for > booting and use gpt partition table for big disk.. Random odd thought. It sounds like you are using a hardware RAID controller (LSI)? I know that the old Mylex RAID controllers would allow you to create multiple *logical* disks on top of a RAID set. Can you do this with the LSI RAID controller? If so, what I would do is create two logical disks, one 'small' (say 20gig or so) and one large (whatever is left). Then, install CentOS on the 20gig logical disk, using a MS-DOS partition table as CentOS wants to do (I'd do four partitions: /boot swap / and /home). *Don't* even try to partition the big disk. Just make it an LVM PV and then create a VG with this physical volume. Carve out logical volumes as needed. > > -- > Eero > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
