On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn < denni...@conversis.de> wrote:
> On 04/23/2012 11:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 04/23/12 2:34 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> OK, I just used Gparted Live (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php , > >> a very useful distro, by the way) to create a GPT partitioned disk. > Then I > >> booted the netinstall for CentOS 6.2 - and it just fails to see the > data on > >> that disk! It wants to wipe it clean - apparently, to create an MS-DOS > >> partition on it! > >> > >> How do I get around this now? In short - and this is a question for > >> everybody - how do I install CentOS 6.2 on a GPT partitioned drive, or > >> create a GPT partition as I go? > > > > I ended up partitioning the system drive MBR and living with a 2TB > > limit. the system I'm on doesn't support EFI or whatever the new boot > > standard is, so it can't boot off a GPT disk anyways. I'm loosing 700GB > > from that first volume.... but I've got 20 more 3TB drives in this > > server for data storage, so not a big problem. > > You could use LVM. Just create 2TB partitions and use them as physical > volumes for a large volume group. Then just create one big logical volume > from that volume group. > > Regards, > Dennis > _______________________________________________ > Dennis, Thanks! The controller I've got (I believe it is a 3Ware 9000 series) - I think that controller does not allow you to create hardware slices on top of a RAID'ed disk (volume). But that is a good idea in general. I used that approach on a couple of HP Proliant servers and that worked. Boris. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
