The answer came from my vendor at Atipa. You will need to change the partitioning scheme to use GPT in order to enable greater than 2TB support. # parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt # parted –s /dev/sda rm 1 # parted –s /dev/sda “mkpart primary xfs 1 -1” At this point, you should be able to continue as you were trying to do before. # mkfs.xfs /dev/sda1 On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Doll, Margaret Ann <margaret_doll@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> > 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. >> > > More details please. I want just one giant partition of 12 Tb or more > when I am finished. > >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
