[CentOS] parted usage

[aurfalien at gmail.com]

On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote:

> On January 11, 2011 03:16:23 pm aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
>> mkpart 0 3T it works and the partition is 3TB.
>>
>> This is a hardware based Areca RAID.  I didn't feel the need to load
>> any Areca drivers as Centos supports this out the box.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> Maybe it can only make 16TB partitions? dunno, never had a  drive  
> quite that
> big. I know it works up to 10TB.
>
> How are you planning to backup a 30TB filesystem, btw?

I rsync it to a few large arrays.

The production array will consist of a few dirs which will be  
individual NFS exports.

These dirs are, by them selves already small enough to backup to other  
 >10TB arrays.

- aurf