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 tables and pat
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 doesn't understand GPT partition tables and patYou have to use either parted or gparted, and as much as I prefer command line, parted is user hostile; gparted's just the gui on top of parted. It works fine, AFAIK, though I've only used it on 3TB drives. mark
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 to the site I could use gparted ) > > Now fdisk doesn't understand GPT partition tables and patInstall gdisk from EPEL. Syntax is very similar to fdisk, and saner if you're used to fdisk versus parted. Home page is at http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
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| Hi,
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| 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 )
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| Now fdisk doesn't understand GPT partition tables and pat
Is there any reason why you can't just use a whole disk LVM PV and then use
LVM to create VGs and LVs of the required size?
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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 site I could use gparted ) > > Now fdisk doesn't understand GPT partition tables and pat > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >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. I'll certainly have a look at gdisk Sorry for the noise. I'll let people know how I get on after the weekend. Tony
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.