Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-24 Thread Khusro Jaleel
Yes. Absolutely yes. One day you'll reboot and your partition table (and all your data) will be gone and unrecoverable. Trust me. And that reason is that it *will* die horribly and eat your data. Set up the small logical drive in the RAID BIOS as another poster detailed so nicely.

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-24 Thread Khusro Jaleel
On 23 Feb 2010, at 18:02, Robert Heller wrote: I guessing one of these things is going on: A) Ubuntu has *patched* versions of parted and fdisk that disable their error checking (!). B) Ubuntu has new versions of parted and fdisk that are more liberal than the (older) versions shipped

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-24 Thread Khusro Jaleel
On 23 Feb 2010, at 23:41, Robert Nichols wrote: You realize that you're utilizing just 2TiB of that 2.7TiB drive, right? It looks like the tools in Ubuntu simply partitioned as much of the drive as they could handle with an msdos label and let the rest go to waste. Yes I'll fix this the

[CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Khusro Jaleel
Hello, sorry for the long email, it's a little hard to explain this issue. The gist of it is that the Ubuntu version of parted allowed me to do something which perhaps should not be allowed i.e. creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive when the partition table is not *gpt* but *msdos*. I am trying

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/23 Khusro Jaleel mailing-li...@kerneljack.com: Hello, sorry for the long email, it's a little hard to explain this issue. The gist of it is that the Ubuntu version of parted allowed me to do something which perhaps should not be allowed i.e. creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive when

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 at 3:38pm, Khusro Jaleel wrote Now, after a few months I forgot all about the Ubuntu LiveCD and tried to setup server B using the CentOS 5.3 x86_64 CD. However the installer immediately complained that this disk in using a GPT partition table and this computer cannot

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Shubitz
On Feb 23, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Khusro Jaleel wrote: I am trying to configure 2 identical servers, both are Dell Poweredge 2970 machines with 6 disks in them configured as a RAID 5 with one hotspare, and both give me 2.726TB of space after the RAID 5 is configured. There are slight

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:45:34 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: 2010/2/23 Khusro Jaleel mailing-li...@kerneljack.com: Hello, sorry for the long email, it's a little hard to explain this issue. The gist of it is that the Ubuntu version of parted allowed me to do

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Khusro Jaleel
Thanks for your replies, just to clear things up, here is what I am seeing. If I reboot server A with the Ubuntu LiveCD, I get: # parted /dev/sda p Model: DELL PERC 5/i (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 2998GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 at 4:11pm, Khusro Jaleel wrote straight away. I understand what you guys are saying about GPT and not being able to boot off it, etc but how did I end up in this situation? There's an old saying that Unix gives you enough rope to hang yourself with... And is this

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:11:48 + CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Thanks for your replies, just to clear things up, here is what I am seeing. If I reboot server A with the Ubuntu LiveCD, I get: # parted /dev/sda p Model: DELL PERC

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

2010-02-23 Thread Robert Nichols
Khusro Jaleel wrote: Thanks for your replies, just to clear things up, here is what I am seeing. If I reboot server A with the Ubuntu LiveCD, I get: # parted /dev/sda p Model: DELL PERC 5/i (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 2998GB Sector size