On 10/12/11 8:48 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > What's the right way to set up>2TB partitions for raid1 autoassembly? > I don't need to boot from this but I'd like it to come up and mount > automatically at boot. disks 2TB and up have to be formatted as GPT rather than MBR, so old MBR tools like fdisk are useless. use parted I would build a LVM vg with the multi-terabyte volumes, using lvm mirroring, and then create an XFS lv on the vg .... xfs seems 100% stable and high performance on centos6 -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast