On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:13:48PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hello fellow Debian aficionados, > > I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to partition and format > a large disk. > > I have a 3ware card and an array defined thusly: > ># tw_cli /c4/u0 show > > > >Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Port Stripe Size(GB) Blocks > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >u0 RAID-5 OK - - 64K 2086.09 > >4374845440 > When I went to try to partition the disk with fdisk, it said: > ># fdisk /dev/sdb > >Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or > >OSF disklabel > >Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, > >until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous > >content won't be recoverable. > > > >You must set cylinders. > >You can do this from the extra functions menu. > >Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by > >w(rite) > Hmm.... Cylinders.
Hi Michael, I've never played around with 2 TB (Only recently got above 2GB). I'm I reading correctly that this is a raid5 array? If so, I didn't know one used fdisk on an array. I would have thought to use LVM. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
