Does it means I have to use one harddisk for just boot process ?
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
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> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 7:35pm, paul.lkw wrote
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>> I have a DELL server with a hardware raid controller card and 6 x 750GB
>> Harddisk, and I configured it as a Raid-5 (5 x 750GB) and 1 of HotSpare.
>> I
>> partitioned 50GB of the main base CentOS system and the remain
>> unpartitioned
>> size should be 2.5xxxTB, but however I just have 2.0T as EXT-3 limitation
>> (I
>> think), How can I use the full size of this with LVM?
>
> This has been answered many times on the CentOS list:
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> 1) On a device larger than 2.0TB, you must use a gpt disklabel rather than
> the default msdos.
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> 2) You must use parted when partitioning such a device.
>
> 3) You can't boot from such a device (as neither grub nor lilo support gpt
> disklabels).
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> Joshua Baker-LePain
> QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
> UCSF
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