Hi John, Thanks for this info. Drobo says no ext4: http://support.drobo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/165/~/how-do-i-use-my-drobo-with-a-linux-machine%3F I will look up XFS. Jason On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:50 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 4/10/2013 9:54 AM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > # parted > > GNU Parted 2.1 > > here's my parted recipe for making very large volumes... this will > fill the disk, reserving 512K up front to be on a reasonable stripe > boundary > > |parted /dev/sdb ||"mklabel gpt"| > |parted -a none /dev/sdb ||"mkpart primary 1024s -1s"| > > I would under NO conditions make a EXT3 volume anywheres NEAR as big as > you're talking about. my preference for large volumes is XFS. > > VG=vg_$(hostname -s)_data > vgcreate $VG /dev/sdb1 > lvcreate --size 8T --name lv_data $VG > mkfs.xfs /dev/$VG/lv_data > mount /dev/$VG/lv_data /data > > if your storage device presents the storage as a block device, then > there's no 'support' issues I'm aware of for file systems, its just > sectors as far as the storage device is concerned, the file system is > strictly up to your OS. > > > -- > john r pierce 37N 122W > somewhere on the middle of the left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >