I used the BIOS setting to create the raid system. I couldn't format it, so I ran fdisk, deleted the partition and created a new partition. The new partition with fdisk was approximately the same size as the original partition created by the BIOS. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:19 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > > I have a raid-5, /dev/sda on a NAS node that has 12.73 Tb of space. > > > > mkfs xfs /dev/sda1 > > mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) > > mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/sda1 > > > > Question 1: Margaret - did you use parted or gparted, or fdisk, or some > NAS utility to create the logical partition? If anything other than an HBA > controller, you've cannot use fdisk, which cannot deal with anything > larger than 2TB. > > mark > > > I can use > > > > mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 works, but it only formats the first 2Tb of space. > > > > filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sdb1 19G 2.8G 16G 16% / > > /dev/sdb5 875G 200M 830G 1% /state/partition > > /dev/sdb2 4.8G 184M 4.4G 5% /var > > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/sda1 2.0T 199M 1.9T 1% /bigdisk1 > > > > How do I get the complete raid system formatted? > > > > Thanks > > -- > > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
