On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:19:26 -0800 (PST)
Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good?
>
Use parted/gparted and select EFI GUID Partition support in
your kernel config, under Files types --> Partition types.
Make the partition an
On 11/11/05, Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good?
AFAIK, yes. LVM2 would be the "non-traditional" partitioning scheme
of choice for Linux. Plus, you can grow the filesystem to a second
array later if you need more space.
So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good?
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
On 11/11/05, kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bryan Whitehead wrote:
I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares)
I get this problem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /
On 11/11/05, kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> >
> > I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares)
> >
> > I get this problem:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc
>
> fdisk is known to have issues with large volumes. I don't recall offhand
> what t
good idea,
I suppose I've put off learning LVM long enough... :P
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
On 11/11/05, Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares)
I get this problem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc
Why pa
Bryan Whitehead wrote:
I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares)
I get this problem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc
fdisk is known to have issues with large volumes. I don't recall offhand
what the best tool is, but I believe partd and cfdisk would work better
th
On 11/11/05, Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares)
>
> I get this problem:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc
Why partition it? Just make a filesystem that uses the entire disk.
Or use LVM to divide it up into logical d
I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares)
I get this problem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 437698.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) so
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