This seems to be a recurring topic! :) Check this site: http://idolinux.blogspot.com/2008/10/perc-raid-and-efi-gpt-wierdness.html
They discuss using GPT or LVM in a number of ways. Chris. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Paul M. Dyer > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 7:15 PM > To: Kevin L. Collins > Cc: Dell Poweredge list server > Subject: Re: Large File Systems, GPT, MD1000 > > Hi, > > I stopped using fdisk on the MD1000 and other large non-boot > partitions awhile ago. I use LVM and create > pdisk/vgroup/ldisk. This works better: easier to increase > the size, blocksizes are bigger, etc. > > fdisk doesn't have any easily usable resize options, except > in Ubuntu. Nevertheless, the issues of alignment between > fdisk partitions and OS blocks made me want to not use fdisk anymore. > > Paul _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
