Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 24 September 2007, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: ... > I got a Gparted live CD and tried to create a partition for 3tb but still > the maximum size of partition I could create is 0.75gb. Just using parted or gparted is not enough, you need to use a gpt, not a traditional "dos"-style, partition

RE: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of John R Pierce > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 1:16 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk > > Wil

RE: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-24 Thread Rajeev R Veedu
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 1:16 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk William L. Maltby wrote: > IIRC, sector size is controlled at the hardware le

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: IIRC, sector size is controlled at the hardware level(used to be set with jumpers and/or low-level format programs?). I seem to recall that new drives don't really have "sectors" anymore, but have supporting circuits/(EE)proms that emulate that? no, sectors are still

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Von Landfried
I had this same issue with 'fdisk' when I installed it on a server with 12TB of space RAID'd down to 6TB. Just use 'parted' and it will solve your problems. On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: I need to install Centos on a machin

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread gjgowey
al List Subject: Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > > increase the block size above 512 >

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > > increase the block size above 512 > > Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant "sector size" there, not "block".

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > increase the block size above 512 Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant "sector size" there, not "block". ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/23/07, Rajeev R Veedu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) > Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. We recently installed CentOS 5 on a pair of machines with 2.5TB RAIDs and the only way we co

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Shawn Everett
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:43 AM Subject: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format i

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid > card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this > disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it > for ext3. The default p

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Fabian Arrotin
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid > card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this > disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it > for ext3. The default p

[CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Rajeev R Veedu
I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it for ext3. The default partitioning utility doesn't do this. The OS sits on another SATA