Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On Monday 24 September 2007, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: ... > I got a Gparted live CD and tried to create a partition for 3tb but still > the maximum size of partition I could create is 0.75gb. Just using parted or gparted is not enough, you need to use a gpt, not a traditional "dos"-style, partition

RE: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of John R Pierce > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 1:16 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk > > Wil

RE: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 1:16 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk William L. Maltby wrote: > IIRC, sector size is controlled at the hardware le

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

William L. Maltby wrote: IIRC, sector size is controlled at the hardware level(used to be set with jumpers and/or low-level format programs?). I seem to recall that new drives don't really have "sectors" anymore, but have supporting circuits/(EE)proms that emulate that? no, sectors are still

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

I had this same issue with 'fdisk' when I installed it on a server with 12TB of space RAID'd down to 6TB. Just use 'parted' and it will solve your problems. On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: I need to install Centos on a machin

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

al List Subject: Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > > increase the block size above 512 >

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > > increase the block size above 512 > > Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant "sector size" there, not "block".

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > increase the block size above 512 Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant "sector size" there, not "block". ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On 9/23/07, Rajeev R Veedu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) > Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. We recently installed CentOS 5 on a pair of machines with 2.5TB RAIDs and the only way we co

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

As William mentioned the easiest way is to format the drive after the fact. Create an LVM and write it directly onto the drive. Things work great that way. I haven't tried formatting a raw device. Shawn - Original Message - From: Rajeev R Veedu To: centos@centos.org Sent: Su

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid > card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this > disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it > for ext3. The default p

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid > card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this > disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it > for ext3. The default p