Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jan Engelhardt wrote: I am not sure (would have to check again), but I believe both opensuse and fedora (the latter of which uses LVM for all partitions by default) have that working, while still using GRUB. Keyword: partitions. I.e., they partition the hard drive (so that the first 31 sector

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 16 2007 11:38, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote: > >> > Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose, >> > as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as >> > yet-another-point-of-fa

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote: Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose, as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as yet-another-point-of-failure). As LVM is on the large partition anyway I'll just add the sec

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote: >Hi Andi, > >Andi Kleen wrote: >> Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning >>> all by itself? >> >> DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need >

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hi Andi, Andi Kleen wrote: > Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning >> all by itself? > > DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need > to use EFI partitions (e.g. using parted) or LVM. Since

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Andi Kleen
Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning > all by itself? DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need to use EFI partitions (e.g. using parted) or LVM. Since parted's user interface is not goo

Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hi everyone, I added a drive to a linux software RAID-5 last night. Now that worked fine... until I changed the partition table. Disk /dev/md_d5: 2499.9 GB, 240978560 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 610349360 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Device Boot Start