[CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
Hello again, Been an interesting day. I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. However upon entering parted, and making a gpt label, print reports back

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread Lisandro Grullon
What filesystem are you planning to use, I am hoping for XFS in such a large volume. aurfal...@gmail.com 1/11/2011 4:41 PM Hello again, Been an interesting day. I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 +

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Lisandro Grullon wrote: What filesystem are you planning to use, I am hoping for XFS in such a large volume. Yes, i posted earlier and was convinced of XFS. Any ideas why parted is showing the wrong size? - aurf___

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. I don't know the answer to your parted question, but let me be the

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. I don't

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
mklabel gpt then use zfs and zpool commands. Lots of good info on google. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:56 PM, compdoc wrote: mklabel gpt then use zfs and zpool commands. Lots of good info on google. Well, I did that and it still shows 2199GB. Any ideas why or am I hung up on benign errors. When ever I do this in partd; mkpart primary 0 26T I get; Error: The location

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 11, 2011 03:16:23 pm aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: mkpart 0 3T it works and the partition is 3TB. This is a hardware based Areca RAID. I didn't feel the need to load any Areca drivers as Centos supports this out the box. Any ideas? Maybe it can only make 16TB partitions? dunno,

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: On January 11, 2011 03:16:23 pm aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: mkpart 0 3T it works and the partition is 3TB. This is a hardware based Areca RAID. I didn't feel the need to load any Areca drivers as Centos supports this out the box. Any ideas?

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
I think it's better to let parted decide how big the partition can be: mkpart primary 0 -1 That should create a partition without a fs type, (no ext3, etc) starting at zero, and using all available. if you have Advanced Format hard drives which are being sold these days, they say you can have

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. I don't

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/11/11 5:34 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so total