[CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 at 11:33am, Rob Lines wrote

> I have just finished creating an array on our new enclosure and our CentOS 5
> server has recognized it.  It shows as the full 6tb in the LSI configuration
> utility as well as when I ran fdisk:

> [root at HOST etc]# parted /dev/sdb
> Warning: Device /dev/sdb has a logical sector size of 2048.  Not all parts
> of GNU Parted support this at
> the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.

This would appear to be your problem.  Unless you have strong reasons to 
use 2K sectors, I'd change them to the much more standard 512.

After that, parted should have no issues whatsoever.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF