Thanks, how can i find out about the dell md1000? The technical data doesn´t say anything about a limit.
Roberto C. Sánchez schrieb: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Stefan Drees wrote: > >> Hi, >> yesterday i installed debian etch amd64 on an FSC Server with an dell >> md1000 diskarray attached. >> The total size of the diskarray is 6TB and i can see the complete 6TB in >> fdisk and cfdisk. >> If i try to create an 6TB partition, it seems to work but after leavinf >> fdisk or cfdisk >> and reentering it shows me only an 1,5TB partition and i can´create >> another partition. >> >> Any hints? What can i do? >> >> > Some RAID hardware has a physical partition size (or logical disk size, > in terms of what Intel calls it) limitation. At work we have an HP > StorageWorks tray with ~5.6TB of SCSI disks in it. The Intel RAID card > which controls does not allow partitions bigger than 2TB. The solution > for us was to create 3 ~1.8TB partitions and put them together as 3 > physical volumes in a LVM volume group. We then just created one bug > logical volume of ~5.6TB. > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
