Hello,
Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( > 2 TB) external storage devices using GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the main OS resides on smaller hard disks using MBR. In this scenario, what can be the largest possible size of an ext3 partition (and filesystem) which can be created on the storage array under CentOS 5.4 ?
Thanks,
Manish
This might help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
We certainly have a GPT partition of 15Tb but I know it can go much larger.
Phil.
Manish Kathuria wrote:
Hello,
Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( > 2 TB) external storage devices using GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the main OS resides on smaller hard disks using MBR. In this scenario, what can be the largest possible size of an ext3 partition (and filesystem) which can be created on the storage array under CentOS 5.4 ?
Thanks,
Manish _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Phil Manuel phil@zomojo.com wrote:
This might help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
We certainly have a GPT partition of 15Tb but I know it can go much larger.
Phil.
Thanks Phil. I had seen that site before and I wanted to know the status on the current CentOS kernels. Are you running CentOS 5.x and using LVM for this partition or have you formatted it as ext3 filesystem directly ?
-- Manish
Manish Kathuria wrote:
Thanks Phil. I had seen that site before and I wanted to know the status on the current CentOS kernels. Are you running CentOS 5.x and using LVM for this partition or have you formatted it as ext3 filesystem directly ?
-- Manish _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
We are using ext4 with lvm for this partition as we know it will need to increase.
Phil.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Manish Kathuria mkathuria@tuxtechnologies.co.in wrote:
Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( > 2 TB) external storage devices using GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the main OS resides on smaller hard disks using MBR. In this scenario, what can be the largest possible size of an ext3 partition (and filesystem) which can be created on the storage array under CentOS 5.4 ?
As a non-boot volume, we've got 9 SAS boxes of 15 1TB disks deployed as a single XFS filesystem, tied together with LVM. Total usable space: 110T
BR Bent
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