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<BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"><BR>What filesystem are you planning to use, I am hoping for XFS in such a large volume.<BR>>>> <aurfalien@gmail.com> 1/11/2011 4:41 PM >>><BR>Hello again,<BR><BR>Been an interesting day.<BR><BR>I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume <BR>which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so <BR>total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS..<BR><BR>However upon entering parted, and making a gpt label, print reports <BR>back as follows;<BR><BR>Model: Areca ARC-1680-VOL#000 (scsi)<BR>Disk /dev/sdc: 2199GB<BR>Sector Size (logical/physical): 512B/512B<BR>Partition Table: gpt<BR><BR>Why is the disk reporting ~2TB?<BR><BR>Should I be using another partitioning tool for such a large volume?<BR><BR>- aurf<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>CentOS mailing list<BR>CentOS@centos.org<BR><A href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</A><BR></BODY></HTML>