[CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

Stephen Harris lists at spuddy.org
Mon Jun 20 19:19:02 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:29:50PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> On 6/18/2011 8:51 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> So...you were planning on treating the RAID as a raw block device, too, 
> then? :)  Otherwise, when you go to partition *it*, I think you'll find 
> that you need to use GPT.

LVM; pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate.  What's a partition? :-)

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rgds
Stephen



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