Re: Preserve Existing RAID1 HDDs with LVM2

2015-12-09 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
> Which FAI version are you using? What's the exact error message? > Was using an old version 3.4.8. Using 4.1 has a different error message but didn't keep track. Ended up reformatting the two drives. Please consider the issue closed. Thanks again for your prompt reply.

Re: disk_config for disks > 2TB

2015-12-09 Diskussionsfäden Kerim Gueney
Hey, setup-storage does create that special partition at the end and places it at the beginning of the disk physically. As such it should work. I am currently in the process of overhauling gpt related partitioning. Once done with that, I'll see if I can reproduce this issue. Thank you very m

Re: disk_config for disks > 2TB

2015-12-09 Diskussionsfäden stuff
yes but using gpt and creating a small partition at the beginning of the drive is supposed to fix that (1MB partition with the right partition type), i did it manually before on other machines (with my own dhcp/pxe script, before i knew about FAI) i was pressed by the time for installing th

Re: disk_config for disks > 2TB

2015-12-09 Diskussionsfäden Kerim Güney
Hi Dann, Could it be that it's causing problems, because MBR's don't support partitions greater than 2TB? From Wikipedia: > Protective MBR - Same as a normal MBR but the 64-byte area contains a single 0xEE type Primary partition entry defined over the entire size of the disk or in case of >2

disk_config for disks > 2TB

2015-12-09 Diskussionsfäden stuff
Hi i'm sending this email for Kerim as advised by Mrfai. No answer needed :) i have an issue when trying to create a single root partition on a raid5 array of 3.7TB here's the disk_config : # disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid primary / 100% ext4