OK folks, I'm back at it again. Instead of taking my J4400 ( 24 x 1T
disks) and making a big RAID60 out of it which Linux cannot make a
filesystem on, I'm created 4 x RAID6 which each are 3.64T
I then do :
sfdisk /dev/sd{b,c,d,e} <<EOF
,,8e
EOF
to make a big LVM partition on each one.
But then when I do :
pvcreate /dev/sd{b,c,d,e}1
and then
pvdisplay
It shows each one as only half its actual size.
But if I take the last one and wipe the partition table and just do
pvcreate on the entire disk, it works
pvcreate /dev/sde
And then if I take the results from that and use the size to force a
size on another PV I get it right too
pvcreate /dev/sdd1 --setphysicalvolumesize=3.64T
I'd use the entire disk expect that this seems dangerous to me because
you do "sfdisk -l" and the disk appears to have no partition table
which might entice someone to thing it is unused.
And I'm not sure whether it is safe to use setphysicalvolumesize.
Anyone know for sure?
What are my alternatives?
"/dev/sdb1" is a new physical volume of "1.64 TB"
--- NEW Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb1
VG Name
PV Size 1.64 TB
Allocatable NO
PE Size (KByte) 0
Total PE 0
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 0
PV UUID 7bzxpQ-Md1o-Z73g-YzLX-xxj7-nszh-LucEFW
"/dev/sdc1" is a new physical volume of "1.64 TB"
--- NEW Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc1
VG Name
PV Size 1.64 TB
Allocatable NO
PE Size (KByte) 0
Total PE 0
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 0
PV UUID tlpJ6A-LPs1-NFbl-h1AZ-5aBX-yOuO-phcwWD
"/dev/sdd1" is a new physical volume of "3.64 TB"
--- NEW Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdd1
VG Name
PV Size 3.64 TB
Allocatable NO
PE Size (KByte) 0
Total PE 0
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 0
PV UUID ifwmQQ-AOvK-Ke6L-2gEy-aJgJ-bb8d-DaJJDD
"/dev/sde" is a new physical volume of "3.64 TB"
--- NEW Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sde
VG Name
PV Size 3.64 TB
Allocatable NO
PE Size (KByte) 0
Total PE 0
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 0
PV UUID VPptAS-CFul-Awe9-TI7E-W9jq-zVdx-1mJjDR
[root@solexa1 ~]#
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