[CentOS] Partition advice

2017-12-01 Thread Kenneth Porter
I'm setting up a new mail server (dovecot + sendmail + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + MIMEDefang) to replace an aging CentOS 6 box. The new box is a low-end PowerEdge with an SSD, 3 4TB red drives on a PERC RAID controller which I'll probably set up RAID5, and possibly mirrored internal SD cards as a

Re: [CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Stephen Drotar wrote: > Hi, > > Can I create partitions on > a RAID disk from GUI? > Is the RAID array already defined, maybe hardware RAID? If so, as far as the OS/installation disk is concerned it is a normal disk like any other. So you can then partition i

Re: [CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread Stephen Drotar
Hi, Can I create partitions on a RAID disk from GUI? Would you recommand partioning the drive if so I can only mount / /usr /swap I am not best at describing my problems Cheers, Steve > On Mar 25, 2015, at 5:58 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 3/25/2015 2:42 PM, Stephen Drotar wrote: >> I’m s

Re: [CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/25/2015 2:42 PM, Stephen Drotar wrote: I’m setting up virtualization and need the VMs to have a certain size of Disk but is only allowing 50GB per volume and I need to find a way to increase that what is only allowing this?? For virtualization, I would create a LVM VG (Volume Group), and

Re: [CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread Stephen Drotar
I’m setting up virtualization and need the VMs to have a certain size of Disk but is only allowing 50GB per volume and I need to find a way to increase that Cheers, Steve > On Mar 25, 2015, at 4:44 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Stephen Drotar wrote: >> >> I would like to create 6 partition

Re: [CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:44 PM, wrote: > Stephen Drotar wrote: >> >> I would like to create 6 partitions on one disk before installing. How > do I add partitions separate from the /home /boot /root and /swap files? > > If you're using a drive 2TB or smaller, and an MBR, rather than a GPT, you >

Re: [CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread m . roth
Stephen Drotar wrote: > > I would like to create 6 partitions on one disk before installing. How do I add partitions separate from the /home /boot /root and /swap files? If you're using a drive 2TB or smaller, and an MBR, rather than a GPT, you can *only* have four primary partitions. To make mor

Re: [CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Stephen Drotar wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to create 6 partitions on one disk before installing. How do I > add partitions separate from the /home /boot /root and /swap files? CentOS 6 installer UI lets you create partitions directly and associate them with mo

Re: [CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread Nux!
s@centos.org > Sent: Wednesday, 25 March, 2015 13:45:48 > Subject: [CentOS] Partition > Hi, > > I would like to create 6 partitions on one disk before installing. How do I > add > partitions separate from the /home /boot /root and /s

[CentOS] Partition

2015-03-25 Thread Stephen Drotar
Hi, I would like to create 6 partitions on one disk before installing. How do I add partitions separate from the /home /boot /root and /swap files? Cheers, Steve ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-15 Thread Tony Molloy
On Friday 14 September 2012 09:26:11 Laurent wrote: > Le 2012-09-14 10:07, Tony Molloy a écrit : > > OOPS that was fat fingers. I didn't mean to send it. > > > > I figured out parted can do the job for me but the interface is > > not the > > best. Can't use gparted as I said I have to do this remot

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 14, 2012 04:26:11 AM Laurent wrote: > I don't know about gdisk features. Perhaps, it can do better than > parted... The feature set of gdisk is virtually identical to the feature set of fdisk, as 'gdisk' means 'GPT fdisk.' No filesystem resizing support, AFAIK.

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-14 Thread Laurent
Le 2012-09-14 10:07, Tony Molloy a écrit : > > OOPS that was fat fingers. I didn't mean to send it. > > I figured out parted can do the job for me but the interface is not > the > best. Can't use gparted as I said I have to do this remotely. Even if you need to do this remotely, you can use gpart

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-14 Thread Tony Molloy
On Thursday 13 September 2012 21:16:33 Tony Molloy wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need > to partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put > ext4 filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. ( > if I can get to the si

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-13 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | Hi, | | I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need to | partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put ext4 | filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. ( if I | can | get to the site I could use gparted ) |

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 04:16:33 PM Tony Molloy wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need to > partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put ext4 > filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. ( if I can > get t

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-13 Thread m . roth
Keith Keller wrote: > On 2012-09-13, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Tony Molloy wrote: >>> >>> I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need to >>> partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put ext4 >>> filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. (

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-13 Thread Keith Keller
On 2012-09-13, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Tony Molloy wrote: >> >> I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need to >> partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put ext4 >> filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. ( if I can >> get to the si

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-13 Thread m . roth
Hi, Tony, Tony Molloy wrote: > > I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need to > partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put ext4 > filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. ( if I can > get to the site I could use gparted ) > > Now fdisk

[CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-13 Thread Tony Molloy
Hi, I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need to partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put ext4 filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. ( if I can get to the site I could use gparted ) Now fdisk doesn't understand GPT partition

Re: [CentOS] Partition # does not end on cylinder boundary.

2012-08-10 Thread Nux!
On 10.08.2012 00:27, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Running CentOS 6.3 > Areca hardware raid 10 > > fdisk -l > > reports multiple partitions with the following description. > "Partition # does not end on cylinder boundary." > > Disks are 512 byte sector size. > Raid stripe size is 64K. > > but if I use

[CentOS] Partition # does not end on cylinder boundary.

2012-08-09 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Running CentOS 6.3 Areca hardware raid 10 fdisk -l reports multiple partitions with the following description. "Partition # does not end on cylinder boundary." Disks are 512 byte sector size. Raid stripe size is 64K. but if I use fdisk -lc (-c Switch off DOS-compatible mode. ) I don't get

Re: [CentOS] partition woes (mapper/isw_bdihgcgahe_Volume0p2)

2010-04-03 Thread aurfalien
> 1) turn off raid in your bios Thats just it, I don't have raid in my BIOS. > 2) type the below command to erase meta data for the raid on the > desired drive > dmraid -E -r /dev/sdX Cool, I'll try that. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] partition woes (mapper/isw_bdihgcgahe_Volume0p2)

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Pryor
--- On Fri, 4/2/10, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > From: aurfal...@gmail.com > Subject: [CentOS] partition woes (mapper/isw_bdihgcgahe_Volume0p2) > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 8:03 PM > Hi, > > I found 2 identical drives lying arou

[CentOS] partition woes (mapper/isw_bdihgcgahe_Volume0p2)

2010-04-02 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I found 2 identical drives lying around and put them into a system. When booting from a Centos 5.x installer, and when being presented with the formatting option (disk druid), it says I have 1 volume of; mamapper/isw_bdihgcgahe_Volume0p2 I can't seem to get rid of it. I have 2 physical d

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 02:33 -0800, John Doe wrote: > From: Scott McClanahan > > I'd like to use cobbler > > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could > > align my disk during install some how. Are there kickstart arguments to > > force the alignment on a 4k boundary?

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread John Doe
From: Scott McClanahan > I'd like to use cobbler > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could > align my disk during install some how. Are there kickstart arguments to > force the alignment on a 4k boundary? Have any of you had to do this? Personaly, I run a pre_kicks

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread Rubin
Hi Scott, Fwiw, I'm doing this for DMX 4 and DMX 5 (vmax) by 128k sectors, as recommended by EMC in their document "Implementing Virtual Provisioning On EMC Symmetrix DMX With Oracle 10g & Oracle 11g". Essentially, the DMX 3 and earlier had a 32kb tracksize (by default, afaik) which meant that th

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-09 Thread nate
Scott McClanahan wrote: > I'll be setting up a vSphere 4 environment hosting CentOS 5.4 on Netapp > FAS and was curious how you guys are handling the automation of > partition alignment within your linux guests. I'd like to use cobbler > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure i

[CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-09 Thread Scott McClanahan
I'll be setting up a vSphere 4 environment hosting CentOS 5.4 on Netapp FAS and was curious how you guys are handling the automation of partition alignment within your linux guests. I'd like to use cobbler for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could align my disk during i

[CentOS] Partition/filesystem expansion difficulties

2008-03-16 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
CentOS 4.6 Hi All: I am now officially stumped. I have tried everything that can think of and I have googled until I am blue in the face and tried just about everything that I could find that looked the least bit like it might apply and still no (or at least partial) joy. I am going to cram as mu