Greetings, On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > To my knowlege, a root file system of size 64GB should be handled > peacefully by centos. > > GPT comes into picture only on > 2tb partitions for different mountpoints. > I changed the label on the 64 GB ssd to msdos using parted in the ctrl+alt+F2 terminal window just before the partitioning. select /dev/sdc mklabel msdos (warned about removal and asked for confirmation and I assented) quit switched to GUI Retried partitiong, formatting through the standard installer GUI and it booted and mounted the 2tb md device on home. So far so good. Thanks for the member's indulgence. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos