On 04/23/2012 11:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 04/23/12 2:34 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> OK, I just used Gparted Live (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php , >> a very useful distro, by the way) to create a GPT partitioned disk. Then I >> booted the netinstall for CentOS 6.2 - and it just fails to see the data on >> that disk! It wants to wipe it clean - apparently, to create an MS-DOS >> partition on it! >> >> How do I get around this now? In short - and this is a question for >> everybody - how do I install CentOS 6.2 on a GPT partitioned drive, or >> create a GPT partition as I go? > > I ended up partitioning the system drive MBR and living with a 2TB > limit. the system I'm on doesn't support EFI or whatever the new boot > standard is, so it can't boot off a GPT disk anyways. I'm loosing 700GB > from that first volume.... but I've got 20 more 3TB drives in this > server for data storage, so not a big problem. You could use LVM. Just create 2TB partitions and use them as physical volumes for a large volume group. Then just create one big logical volume from that volume group. Regards, Dennis