On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote:
I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it for ext3. The default partitioning utility doesn’t do this. The OS sits on another SATA disk and each time during the installation it doesn’t format the full disk which is 3TB.
Try leaving the whole disk unpartitioned. Most *ix systems will work fine with raw dvices.
Then in your fstab, use /dev/hda or sda, etc. instead of had1, sda1, ...
I've not tried it, but I think LVM might be comfy with this too. But I don't know if they have put code demanding partition information into their software.
Could someone suggest another disk partitioning utility (other than fdisk) please?
I've seen gparted recommended on this list. Use google with the "site:centos.org" argument and you'll probably find the details.
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