[CentOS] strange partitioning problem

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

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