On Thursday 05 October 2006 12:58, chrism at imntv.com wrote: > John Newbigin wrote: > > You can not have a DOS partition larger than 2Tb. parted will create > > one and tell the kernel about the size which works.... until you > > reboot and then the partition is 2Tb smaller than it should be because > > the partition table can not store the MSB of your partition size. > > > > The solution is to use LVM or GPT partitions. > > Right. > > The procedure should look something like this: > > /sbin/parted /dev/yourdevice > (parted) mklabel gpt > (parted) print > Disk geometry for /dev/etherd/yourdevice: 0kB - 3001GB > Disk label type: gpt > (parted) mkpart primary 0 3001G > (parted) quit > > Now build the filesystem. I normally use: > > mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/yourdevice I'm sure you meant /dev/yourdevice1, assuming that the first gpt paratition of yourdevice is just appended a "1" like with old style dos partition (I've only done this with lvm whole disks). /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061005/d5c0a3a8/attachment-0004.sig>