[CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.comWed May 7 15:12:50 UTC 2014
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On 5/7/2014 7:41 AM, CS_DBA wrote: > Originally I tried to simply upgrade an older server with more drive > space, I installed six (6) 4TB drives and did a new CentOS 6.5 install > but the OS would not allow me to configure more than 2TB per drive. > > Subsequent research leads me to conclude that if the bios supports UEFI > and the installer boots as such then the installer should see 4TB drives > without any issues. I'm also assuming that any server I order today > (i.e. a more modern server) should ship with UEFI support in the bios. anaconda's installation time partitioning tool doesn't support GPT format disks, as far as I know. if you boot to a shell prompt, and use gparted and the lvw commands to setup the disks the way you want, making sure /boot is in the first terabyte of the drive, then you should be able to install to those existing partitions/lvs... -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
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