There is another way too, make the disk a raw PV (no partition table) and use LVM. LVM can handle PVs up to 2^64 in size. Then when creating LVs you only have to worry about what the max file system size is. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Thu Jul 24 22:04:42 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos I'll second that... we recently put a system online with over 3TB of storage. The only way to create a storage medium that large was to use a gpt disk label and use parted to do the partitioning. mkfs had no problems formatting the partition and it's been working properly for quite some time now. Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Silva" <ssilva at sgvwater.com> To: centos at centos.org Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:56:47 PM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey Subject: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos on 7-24-2008 3:42 PM Milt Mallory spake the following: > I have an Infortrend RAID box I’d like to see as one big 6TB partition, > but I only can get 2.2TB partitions to work. I was trying to do this > with an Adaptec controller but apparently they are only (any of them) 48 > bits wide. Does anybody have a working system for SCSI/Centos over 2.2TB? > > Did you try creating GPT partitions with parted? Fdisk won't do it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080725/1991bf68/attachment-0003.html>