The drives are Seagate Constellation disks, 1 Tb apiece. I have 15 of them in the array. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:25 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > > 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 > > Yup - if this were a single disk, that would not be a good place to start, > esp. if it was a large disk. I don't know how big the drives in the array > are, and even though parted says it's 512/512 sector size, most new large > drives are, in reality, 4k in hardware/firmware. You *might* consider > repartitioning, but start at 2048k, rather than 1. I suspect that if you > did > parted align-check optimal /dev/sda1 > that it would tell you it was not aligned properly. > > mark > > > > -- > 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
