Dan Hitt wrote
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rick,
fdisk and cfdisk are being honest with you.
2.19T is the limit.
But you can partition it as gpt, and have many many partitions on it,
or i believe one huge one.
You can use the live gparted cd to do it.
(ubuntu will also do it for you automatically, but not wanting to
bring up things that may be
too far from what you need or want.)
btw, i realize i'm being super-vague.
somebody on the list will correct me later.
but the deal is that using the normal partitioning scheme, sometimes
called 'msdos', your
partition sizes are limited.
but if you set the disk layout to be gpt, which gparted will do for
you if you want, then
you have a huge amount of flexibility.
here's an url you can go to to get an iso image to burn a cd with and
boot from to
setup your 3T disk:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
dan
On May 21, 2013, at 2:50 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
It turns out that with gparted I was able to create one large 3TB
partition in a gpt-type partition table. I was able to mount it and
write a few files to it. I haven't tried anything big yet, but I'm
hopeful.
As regards the LVM solution, it occurred to me that I don't need a
partition table to declare the entire disk as a physical volume for
LVM. So I could create a volume group that is the whole single
disk, and use lvm to partition it any way I want. And when it comes
time to add another disk to the group, I have all of LVM2 at my
disposal to do so.
So after I get thru playing with gpt, I'll try the lvm solution and
report back what I find.
Well...
Using gpt via gparted seems to work fine for a 3TB partition.
And so does using lvm with the whole disk as a PV. I'm doing a
massive rsync to it as I type.
Thanks to everyone for all the help!
Rick
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