Did you scan the new storage ? If manual scan don't work (sometime it don't) reboot the server. Sanjay Chakraborty On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Anne Moore <diabeticithink@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello All! > > > > I have multiple RHEL 5.5 boxes, and I’m trying to partition > out (cut up) our 2.2 TB of storage on each one. However, neither Parted or > Fdisk will allow it on any of the RHEL 5.5 boxes. (We do have 20 RHEL 4.0 > boxes, and it works perfectly on those.) Given it works fine with RHEL 4,0, I > assume this is a bug with RHEL 5.5? > > > > Here’s the problem: > > > > I’ve used GPT and msdos tables with this. > > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 2247GB > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > > Partition Table: gpt > > > > Number Start End Size File > system Name Flags > > > > (parted) mkpart primary ext3 1024 73000 > > (parted) mkpart primary ext3 60000 560000 > > (parted) mkpart primary ext3 560000 999999 > > (parted) mkpart extended ext3 999999 2143360 > > > > Now we have: > > Number Start End > Size File system Name > Flags > > 1 1024MB > 60.0GB > 59.0GB > primary > > 2 60.0GB > 560GB > 500GB > primary > > 3 560GB > 1000GB > 440GB > primary > > 4 > 1000GB 2143GB > 1143GB extended > > At this point, I can’t do anything else. I try to create > logical drives out of the extended, like so: > > > > I type in: (parted) mkpart logical ext3 999999 1400000 > > > > And I get back this error: > > (parted) mkpart logical ext3 999999 1400000 > > Warning: You requested a partition from 1000GB to 1400GB. > > The closest location we can manage is 2143GB to > 2143GB. Is this still > > acceptable to you? > > Yes/No? > > > > And it doesn’t matter what I type on that (parted) line, it > always comes back with this same error message. > > > > Again, this works fine in RHEL 4. But just won’t work on any > of our RHEL 5.5. > > > > Anyone have any ideas on this? Is perhaps RHEL 5.5 expecting > something else on the command line? Or perhaps know of a patch that resolves > this? > > > > Thanks to you all for the help. > > > > Anne M. > > > > Rebate Systems of Southern California > > Systems and Integration > > > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
