On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:00:25 PM Stephen Harris wrote: > > But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work > > in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE see the > > whole disk? And also whether I need to be worried about 4Kbyte sectors. > > You'll have to change to GPT partitioning to use >2TB; for instance: Only if I'm partitioning the disk, surely. If I just throw the whole raw disk into mdadm (sdd, sde, sdf...) then isn't partitioning irrelevant? > Linux 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed May 18 07:07:27 EDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Hmm, el6. Nice to know that will work when CentOS6 comes out; maybe I'll wait until then and rebuild my machine with 64bit mode. > You will need to align your partitions to the 4KB sector boundaries; What if I don't partition? Thanks, -- rgds Stephen