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<P><FONT SIZE=2>There is another way too, make the disk a raw PV (no partition table) and use LVM.<BR>
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LVM can handle PVs up to 2^64 in size.<BR>
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Then when creating LVs you only have to worry about what the max file system size is.<BR>
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-Ross<BR>
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From: centos-bounces@centos.org <centos-bounces@centos.org><BR>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org><BR>
Sent: Thu Jul 24 22:04:42 2008<BR>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos<BR>
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I'll second that... we recently put a system online with over 3TB of storage. The only way to create a storage medium that large was to use a gpt disk label and use parted to do the partitioning. mkfs had no problems formatting the partition and it's been working properly for quite some time now.<BR>
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Tim Nelson<BR>
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Rockbochs Inc.<BR>
(218)727-4332 x105<BR>
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From: "Scott Silva" <ssilva@sgvwater.com><BR>
To: centos@centos.org<BR>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:56:47 PM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey<BR>
Subject: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos<BR>
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on 7-24-2008 3:42 PM Milt Mallory spake the following:<BR>
> I have an Infortrend RAID box I’d like to see as one big 6TB partition,<BR>
> but I only can get 2.2TB partitions to work. I was trying to do this<BR>
> with an Adaptec controller but apparently they are only (any of them) 48<BR>
> bits wide. Does anybody have a working system for SCSI/Centos over 2.2TB?<BR>
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Did you try creating GPT partitions with parted? Fdisk won't do it.<BR>
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