[CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

[Stephen Harris]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:00:25 PM Stephen Harris wrote:
> > But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work
> > in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE see the
> > whole disk?  And also whether I need to be worried about 4Kbyte sectors.
> 
> You'll have to change to GPT partitioning to use >2TB; for instance:

Only if I'm partitioning the disk, surely.  If I just throw the whole
raw disk into mdadm (sdd, sde, sdf...) then isn't partitioning
irrelevant?

> Linux 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed May 18 07:07:27 EDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Hmm, el6.  Nice to know that will work when CentOS6 comes out; maybe I'll
wait until then and rebuild my machine with 64bit mode.

> You will need to align your partitions to the 4KB sector boundaries;

What if I don't partition?

Thanks,

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rgds
Stephen