[CentOS] Large disk support

Shawn Everett shawn at tandac.com
Tue Nov 28 21:54:49 UTC 2006


> Possible solutions are:
>
> 1) Install a 2nd disk/array for the OS, and use the big array for data.
>
> 2) Turn on the 3ware's auto-carving feature, which will divide the single
>     RAID volume into multiple disks, none larger than 2TiB.
>

Here's how I did it:

Create a big 3TB RAID5 array.

Create an 80GB virtual disk of the OS and applications (sda1)

Create as many other virtual disks as you want/need.  My raid controller
required me to make 2 as it couldn't create a disk that big. (sdb)

Install the OS as per normal onto sda1.  Should work just fine.

Manually create an LV directy onto sdb. No partitions.

Set up any LV partitions you might want.  Format and mount the drive.

I chose to use JFS which has been fast for disk checks, formatting and
overall performance seems good.

Shawn



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