On Oct 14, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > I just got a new server with a Dell MD-1000 SAS unit and 6-750 > gigabyte > drives which are now initializing in RAID 10 which will give me just > about 2 terabytes. > > I vaguely recall reading that fdisk wasn't suitable for partitioning > and > wonder if I shouldn't be using partd instead. I am also wondering if I > should use lvm or just mkfs to create the filesystem. Anyone have > suggestions before I blunder in? Just pvcreate the whole disk and forgo partitioning it. Then create a vg out of it and start creating lvs. -Ross