[CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread CS_DBA
Hi all; I cross posted this to the fedora list since we use Fedora as a test bed from time to time, however given this is a production server we'll likely be running CentOS. we've just ordered a new server (http://www.spectrumservers.com/ssproducts/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=26idproduct=787)

Re: [CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread Bob Marcan
On Wed, 07 May 2014 08:41:23 -0600 CS_DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: Hi all; I cross posted this to the fedora list since we use Fedora as a test bed from time to time, however given this is a production server we'll likely be running CentOS. we've just ordered a new server

Re: [CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2014 7:41 AM, CS_DBA wrote: Originally I tried to simply upgrade an older server with more drive space, I installed six (6) 4TB drives and did a new CentOS 6.5 install but the OS would not allow me to configure more than 2TB per drive. Subsequent research leads me to conclude that if

Re: [CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread CS_DBA
On 05/07/2014 09:14 AM, Bob Marcan wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2014 08:41:23 -0600 CS_DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: Hi all; I cross posted this to the fedora list since we use Fedora as a test bed from time to time, however given this is a production server we'll likely be running

Re: [CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2014 8:31 AM, CS_DBA wrote: Thanks for the advice, can someone point me to a good step by step how to per setting up a RAID 10 volume per the parted GPT tools? man mdraid man parted man vgcreate man lvcreate -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on

Re: [CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 05/07/2014 05:31 PM, CS_DBA wrote: Thanks for the advice, can someone point me to a good step by step how to per setting up a RAID 10 volume per the parted GPT tools? You might find this usefull, text on official CentOS Facebook group. GPT is separate from RAID's, so GPT is not covered,

Re: [CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread m . roth
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 05/07/2014 05:31 PM, CS_DBA wrote: Thanks for the advice, can someone point me to a good step by step how to per setting up a RAID 10 volume per the parted GPT tools? You might find this usefull, text on official CentOS Facebook group. GPT is separate from

Re: [CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2014 11:36 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Also, my manager is very much not a fan of LVM, but we do have*large* RAIDs - we use RAID 6 for data, though we've used RAID 1 for /boot and /. Since I keep reading that we really need to fix the fsck,etc tools for 16TB in the next year for the

Re: [CentOS] Format big drives (4TB) in the installer?

2014-05-07 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 07.05.2014 17:31, CS_DBA wrote: On 05/07/2014 09:14 AM, Bob Marcan wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2014 08:41:23 -0600 CS_DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: Hi all; I cross posted this to the fedora list since we use Fedora as a test bed from time to time, however given this is a production