parted align-check optimal /dev/sda1 Error: Could not stat device align-check - No such file or directory. Retry/Cancel? cancel On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Doll, Margaret Ann <margaret_doll@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 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
