On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 at 6:42pm, Milt Mallory wrote > >> 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? > > Are you using gpt disk labels and parted (rather than fdisk) to do your > partitioning? You can't install centos (or redhat) over a gpt partition (unless itanium platform) and there is a big chance your bios won't boot such installation. I came with 2 solutions: if disk access performance isn't important (as for backup), I do software raid; or I install two little raid1 disks for the OS and then I use GPT or LVM on the multi-tera raid of big disks. -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda)