On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:20 AM, John Doe <jdmls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I just received a new server (HP DL180G5) with 12x 1TB HDs and I bumped into fdisks 2TB limits...
Since this is an entry level server, I can't use the classic HP bootable utilities to create smaller volumes et can only create a big RAID6.
I found out that: using parted, labelling it gpt and creating the partitions would do the trick.
But, what about grub? I read that it does not support gpt...
Or is there another way to do it?
By example, do you think I could boot on a live CentOS, install HP RAID tools on it (is it possible?) and then create volumes...?
Thx,
JD
I came across this article you may find useful:
http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/linux_larger_2TB.html
I should say that I STRONGLY recommend not creating ext3 file systems in the 2TB+ range - fsck takes too long and you'd hate to get hit by one of those in what is supposed to be a "quick" reboot...and disabling them on the file system isn't a good idea either.
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Jake Paulus
JakePaulus@xxxxxxxxx
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