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

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