On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there… > > > > I’ve been reading through various docs but getting a bit lost – figure this > must be fairly easy to explain ;) > > > > On my machine (Dell R710 Poweredge) I have 6 SAS drives running RAID5 via > Perc 6/I controller. To get Fedora 10 to install, I had to shrink the > initial partition down so I thought I’d install with just this: > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda2 10079084 1354216 8212868 15% / > > /dev/sda1 198337 19162 168935 11% /boot > > tmpfs 4149532 0 4149532 0% /dev/shm > > > > Then I’ll take the remaining 4.8TB or so and mount them after installing. > The install went fine now with the smaller partition to boot with…. > > > > So, having not run Fedora for a bit, I thought I’d fire up FDISK but it > tells me: > > > > WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk > doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. > > > > So I fire up parted and create a partition (weird that it only supports > ext2 vs ext3). That part seems to go fine and now I need to add that > partition to /etc/fstab but now I get confused: > I thought that was a little weird so I looked it up, and you're correct, parted does not support ext3 directly, however, the easiest thing to do is create the partition in parted but format it from a regular shell i.e. "mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdX". > > > UUID=8e37b3d8-a52f-4620-ad58-1ae79abd8b50 / ext3 > defaults 1 1 > > UUID=74dfbed0-e91c-4d95-b09c-0b8eb9d96543 /boot ext3 > defaults 1 2 > > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > UUID=905ac254-05fb-4ca2-856d-01e05ee4a7d2 swap swap > defaults 0 0 > > > > I’ve never seen this UUID stuff before – how do I add my new partition to > fstab? I’ve been reading that UUID is related to the GPT but is there a way > for me to add this partition? > UUID is a way to uniquly identify a disk, partition, lvm, etc. It is never supposed to change where your /dev entry might if you were to add disks, rearrange, etc, and is now the standard way to reference storage media on several linux distributions. I know how to do if for a real disk or even LVM but not sure about a raid array but the following link might work: http://blog.mypapit.net/2008/04/linux-how-to-get-harddisk-uuid-number.html > > > Also, what is the maximum partition size under Core 10? > Can't help you there. > > > Thanks for your time, > > > > Paul > > Richard
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