On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:09 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > > 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. > > Which is what I was saying. > > > > # parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt > > This is command-line version of what I said - I was giving you the > interactive version. I do not understand why the above would work, and > what I suggested you do gave you "invalid token". > > > > # parted –s /dev/sda rm 1 > > The above removes partition 1. > > > > # parted –s /dev/sda “mkpart primary xfs 1 -1” > > > You've decided to use xfs, yes? And the 1 bothers me, a lot. That's either > sector or cylinder... and they did *not* tell you to use -a optimal for > aligning the partition. If you do parted -l, what do you see? > [root@nas-0-0 ~]# parted -l Model: AMCC 9650SE-16M DISK (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 14.0TB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 14.0TB 14.0TB xfs primary df -h /dev/sda1 13T 8.4G 13T 1% /bigdisk1 > > mark > > > > > > 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. 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