[Cialug] Gpt drives and management tools

[Tom Pohl]

My problem must have been Dell related.  The server came with 3  
virtual drives and I though, "That's silly".  So I re-partioned it  
into 1 6T drive and sure enough, I had problems booting after the  
install completed, but once I put it back the way they had it and  
added the 3 virtual drives the the LVM everything worked great.  This  
was CentOS 5.0.

-Tom



On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Aaron Porter wrote:

> On 7/3/07, Tom Pohl <tom at tcpconsulting.com> wrote:
>> I had to take my raid array and turn the 6TB array into 3 - 2TB
>> virtual drives in the SCSI bios.  If you use LVM, it's no big deal
>> putting them back together to make a 6TB filesystem, but apparently
>> linux doesn't like to see a single drive bigger than 2TB.
>
> That's not strictly true, I've done 10tb single volumes (XFS, ext3
> maxed out at 8tb iirc). Some important things (grub & lilo, eg) don't
> like large block devices, but if you're not booting off them, it
> should be fine.
>
> I used parted and mkfs.ext3 on Debian Etch. With a gpt partition  
> table.
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