I was going to use parted and create a partition, but I don't know what to use for the end point. Model: AMCC 9650SE-16M DISK (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 14.0TB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > > 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. > > Ok, I don't know what you mean by the BIOS setting - on what? Is this > attached to a server, or is this an "appliance"? If the former, do you > mean the firmware for an HBA? > > At any rate, you *cannot* use fdisk to do anything with this. There are > hard-coded limits with fdisk - you *must* use either parted (which is user > surly, if not outright hostile) or gparted (the GUI version, which is, > well, ok). And you must specify that the partition table - there is no MBR > as we know it, for something this big - must be GPT, not MBR. > > mark > > > > 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 > > > > > -- > 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
