On 14.07.2007 00:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote (please find the answer below the original text): > 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? >> Which fs can handle it? >> (CONFIG LARGE BLOCK is on) >> We are talking about a 32Bit machine with vanilla kernel 2.6.21.5. >> > > You have to use GPT partitions instead of DOS partitions (although you > may have to leave your /boot as an DOS partitions, this is supposed to > be possible as the two partitioning schemes are designed to coexist, but > I don't think parted has support for it yet.) >
This is the solution (for use as a data container on a backup machine): parted /dev/sdb: (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) mkpart p 0 100% (parted) quit mkreiserfs /dev/sdb1 ...and all seems to work. Thank you all very much for your hints. Regards - Ingo. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
