on 10/23/2007 10:16 PM Anup Shukla spake the following:
Anup Shukla wrote:
Hi All,
Sorry if this has been answered many times. But i have been going through a lot of pages (via google search). The more i search, the more its confusing me.
I have a server with 6 (750G each) SATA disks with H/W Raid 5.
I plan to allocate the space as follows
swap 8G /boot 100M / 20G -- and remaining space to /data{1,2,3,N} (equal sizes)
However after the installation and reboot, i got an error about bad partition for /data8
I had hit the 2T limit.
Then i found this page at http://www.knowplace.org/pages/howtos/linux_large_filesystems_support.php
which speaks of using Parted/LVM2 and XFS.
If i understand this correctly, I need to have 1 disk to host the CentOS installation. And i can use the other 5 disks in a RAID array (label type gpt...)
Is it not possible to partition and use the existing RAID 5 volume?
I really am not sure about how to proceed for this big disk problem.
Any ideas/links will really help.
Dell PERC 5/i "does" have an option to create multiple LUNs. So, i have been quite moronic in not trying to apply logic initially. As for now, i am creating a small "system" disk, and multiple 500G "data" disks.
I do not really need to have 1 big partition for the data.
So this is a lot simpler setup i believe, and no chance of hitting the 2T limit.
A big thanks to everyone who guided me, and my apologies if this qualifies as a "waste of time" post.
This, for sure, is the best list i have ever experienced.
Thank you all again.
Regards, A.S
I would not make the data partitions that small as linux will play hell thinking it really is separate drives and slow down. Make them just under the 2T size.