On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > >> I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume >> which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so >> total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. > > I don't know the answer to your parted question, but let me be the > first > of many to express horror at the idea of using RAID-5 for such a large > volume with so many spindles, even with a hot spare. The rebuild > times are > probably going to be days, and the chance of a second spindle > failure in > that time is high enough to make it dangerous. Use RAID-6 at least. Hi Steve. I went with Raid 6 + spare. I'll force a failure (that is, once I get past my parted issue) and let you know rebuild times. - aurf