Re: [CentOS] centos6.2, parted and alignment

2012-01-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, January 09, 2012 02:03:23 PM John R Pierce wrote: Is there another tool I can use for GPT partitions over 2TB ? Hmm, I have an EL6.2 installation (i386) with four mounted volumes over 2TB; IIRC parted was used to make them. I don't recall doing anything special to get the

Re: [CentOS] centos6.2, parted and alignment

2012-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Using gparted (GUIs, why did it have to be GUIs), you at least don't get that idiot warning. yeah, no gui on my file or database servers.  not gonna happen. Having the X libs installed so you can run a gui program with

Re: [CentOS] centos6.2, parted and alignment

2012-01-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/10/12 9:39 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Having the X libs installed so you can run a gui program with a remote display doesn't bother a server much. And it's sometimes handy to be able to run wireshark like that if you need to peek at a few packets in real time. painfully slow over a remote

Re: [CentOS] centos6.2, parted and alignment

2012-01-10 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/10/2012 08:56 PM, John R Pierce wrote: And, having to explain how to setup a remote X session, then how to do something with pointy-clicky would be painful, a one line command replaced with pages of screenshots? ugh. There is NX/FreeNX server/client via ssh. Safe and simple remote

Re: [CentOS] centos6.2, parted and alignment

2012-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Having the X libs installed so you can run a gui program with a remote display doesn't bother a server much.  And it's sometimes handy to be able to run wireshark like that if you need to peek at a few packets in real

Re: [CentOS] centos6.2, parted and alignment

2012-01-09 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: I have a large raid (lsi megaraid sas2 9261-8i card) and when I use parted to initialize it as the one big partition I want, it gives me a warning. snip # parted -a optimal /dev/sda mkpart primary 128s -1s Warning: You requested a partition from 65.5kB to

Re: [CentOS] centos6.2, parted and alignment

2012-01-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/09/12 10:37 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: If*anyone* has the answer to this, I want to know. Or maybe we should just file a bug against parted, which ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY does*not* want to a) align it for best performance, or b)*TELL* you what you need to align it. Is there another