On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn < dennisml@conversis.de> wrote:
On 04/23/2012 11:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 04/23/12 2:34 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
OK, I just used Gparted Live (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php , a very useful distro, by the way) to create a GPT partitioned disk.
Then I
booted the netinstall for CentOS 6.2 - and it just fails to see the
data on
that disk! It wants to wipe it clean - apparently, to create an MS-DOS partition on it!
How do I get around this now? In short - and this is a question for everybody - how do I install CentOS 6.2 on a GPT partitioned drive, or create a GPT partition as I go?
I ended up partitioning the system drive MBR and living with a 2TB limit. the system I'm on doesn't support EFI or whatever the new boot standard is, so it can't boot off a GPT disk anyways. I'm loosing 700GB from that first volume.... but I've got 20 more 3TB drives in this server for data storage, so not a big problem.
You could use LVM. Just create 2TB partitions and use them as physical volumes for a large volume group. Then just create one big logical volume from that volume group.
Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________
Dennis,
Thanks! The controller I've got (I believe it is a 3Ware 9000 series) - I think that controller does not allow you to create hardware slices on top of a RAID'ed disk (volume). But that is a good idea in general. I used that approach on a couple of HP Proliant servers and that worked.
Boris.