On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 March 2014 14:42, CS_DBA <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi All; >> >> I have a server which we've setup with 2 - 500GB drives and 6 - 4TB >> drives >> >> I want to mirror the 2 500GB drives as a RAID 1 volume - works as expected >> >> However I also want to add all 6 4TB drives to a single RAID 10 RAID >> device >> >> I try and create a raid volume, choose one of the 4TB drives and it wont >> let me select more than 2TB of space. Can someone give some insight on how >> to pull this off? > > This is going to depend on a couple of factors: > > 1) If you are using SciLin-5 there may be a limit to the size of disk that > it can use. > 2) If you are using SciLin-6 it should be able to work because I believe it > uses gparted but it might only use that if your system booted in UEFI mode. > In BIOS mode or if it uses fdisk then it can only be used for disks no > larger than 2TB. > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. Not 100% sure but if the 500GB drives are set up to be /boot (msdos partition), then the other drives can be partitioned using GPT. If this is plausible, then UEFI mode is not required and GPT allows disks larger than 2TB. Akemi
