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Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem

To: "paul.lkw" <paul.lkw@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.6TB Storage Size Problem
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:30:04 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 7:35pm, paul.lkw wrote

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:

1) On a device larger than 2.0TB, you must use a gpt disklabel rather than
   the default msdos.

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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