on 7-25-2008 6:26 AM Marcelo Roccasalva spake the following: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17-4+jYJfmkT58 at public.gmane.org> 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. > Or partition the array with a small partition for OS and big partition (gpt) for data. You should be able to carve up the array that way. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080725/3c7e7a2e/attachment-0005.sig>