[CentOS] Booting Software RAID

Tue Jan 28 22:20:15 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 27.01.2014 um 20:50 schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us:
>> Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
>>> On 01/27/2014 08:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Sevcenco
>>>> <Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does that all work the same for drives > 2 TB?
>>> i have no idea .. it should .. my use cases at work are the boot drives
>> (all under 500 GB) and home (but i have no hdd > 2 TB)
>>>
>>> basically it is a raid over a block device so it does/should not matter
>>> what you write into it...
>>>
>> As I noted in a previous post, it's got to be GPT, not MBR - the latter
>> doesn't understand > 2TB, and won't.
>
> IMHO this applies only to partitions (eg. 3TB HD with MBR 1x1TB, 1x2TB
> Partition).

Perhaps... but fdisk can't deal with drives > 2TB, and if I'm forced to
use parted, I might as well do gpt. I don't believe I've tried MBR, though
I'm not sure if I've used 3TB for multiple partitions.

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