> 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 There's another option, altogether. Skip gparted, altogether, and use LVM. Set the entire /dev/sda as an LVM physical volume (instead of creating any partitions on it), add the PV to a volume group, and then build filesystem(s) out using logical volume(s), instead. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
