On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn < dennisml at conversis.de> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Dennis, Thanks for your help. By all appearances this is not GPT but rather MSDOS table. And this may be bad news overall. See this: http://richardjh.org/blog/install-centos-onto-large-partitions-using-gpt-disk-layout/ Boris.