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.
Thank you.
Regards,
A.S