On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:20 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just received a new server (HP DL180G5) with 12x 1TB HDs and I bumped > into fdisks 2TB limits... > Since this is an entry level server, I can't use the classic HP bootable > utilities to create smaller volumes et can only create a big RAID6. > I found out that: using parted, labelling it gpt and creating the > partitions would do the trick. > But, what about grub? I read that it does not support gpt... > Or is there another way to do it? > By example, do you think I could boot on a live CentOS, install HP RAID > tools on it (is it possible?) and then create volumes...? > > Thx, > JD I came across this article you may find useful: http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/linux_larger_2TB.html I should say that I STRONGLY recommend not creating ext3 file systems in the 2TB+ range - fsck takes too long and you'd hate to get hit by one of those in what is supposed to be a "quick" reboot...and disabling them on the file system isn't a good idea either. -- Jake Paulus JakePaulus at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090127/766e4843/attachment-0004.html>