[CentOS] strange partitioning problem

Tue Apr 24 11:46:44 UTC 2012
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de>

On 04/24/2012 05:38 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 04/23/12 8:31 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>> um, LVM can't see over 2TB of the drive either, unless its formatted
>>>>  GPT, whereupon it can't be used as a boot device on a non-EFI system.
>> The idea is to create multiple 2TB partitions.
>>
>> In one specific case I set up a 4TB System by creating a 1G boot volume and
>> 3.99T system volume. Then I created two 2T partitions on the system volume,
>> formatted them as physical volumes and added them to the main volume group.
>> Then you can create a 4T logical volume if you like.
> 
> how do I create two disks from one 3TB JBOD ?

I used the raid controller for this. On a regular disk you just create two
partitions I guess.

Regards,
  Dennis