There is another way too, make the disk a raw PV (no partition table) and use LVM.
LVM can handle PVs up to 2^64 in size.
Then when creating LVs you only have to worry about what the max file system size is.
-Ross
----- Original Message -----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thu Jul 24 22:04:42 2008
Subject: Re: Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos
I'll second that... we recently put a system online with over 3TB of storage. The only way to create a storage medium that large was to use a gpt disk label and use parted to do the partitioning. mkfs had no problems formatting the partition and it's been working properly for quite some time now.
Tim Nelson
Systems/Network Support
Rockbochs Inc.
(218)727-4332 x105
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Silva" <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:56:47 PM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey
Subject: Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos
on 7-24-2008 3:42 PM Milt Mallory spake the following:
> I have an Infortrend RAID box I’d like to see as one big 6TB partition,
> but I only can get 2.2TB partitions to work. I was trying to do this
> with an Adaptec controller but apparently they are only (any of them) 48
> bits wide. Does anybody have a working system for SCSI/Centos over 2.2TB?
>
>
Did you try creating GPT partitions with parted? Fdisk won't do it.
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