On 04/12/2012 03:14 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > > Here's I am, trying to install Centos 6.2 64-bit on a server with 24 TB of > disk RAIDed as RAID 6. So I get this 18 TB disk (the RAID is recognized as > one disk) where I am trying to put my OS. And I can create a couple of > partitions - let us say I defiine a 150 GB swap, a 150 GB "/", a 100 GB > "/var". So far so good. Then I try to define the next one, say, a 100 GB > "/tmp" and get a message stating there is not enough disk space whereas I > still have over 18 TB free and the installation interface reflects that > accurately! > > I am at a loss. Is that something related to the sheer size of the disk? > Why would this happen - especially at so basic a stage of the process? > > At any rate, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Have you also defined a /boot partition and maybe declared all of them to be primary partitions? If so you maybe ran out of partitions rather than actual diskspace. Are you using a GPT partition table? Regards, Dennis