Hi All,
Sorry if this has been answered many times.
But i have been going through a lot of pages (via google search).
The more i search, the more its confusing me.
I have a server with 6 (750G each) SATA disks with H/W Raid 5.
I plan to allocate the space as follows
swap 8G
/boot 100M
/ 20G
-- and remaining space to /data{1,2,3,N} (equal sizes)
However after the installation and reboot, i got an error about bad
partition for /data8
I had hit the 2T limit.
Then i found this page at
http://www.knowplace.org/pages/howtos/linux_large_filesystems_support.php
which speaks of using Parted/LVM2 and XFS.
If i understand this correctly,
I need to have 1 disk to host the CentOS installation.
And i can use the other 5 disks in a RAID array
(label type gpt...)
Is it not possible to partition and use the existing RAID 5 volume?
I really am not sure about how to proceed for this big disk problem.
Any ideas/links will really help.
Thank you.
Regards,
A.S
Anup Shukla wrote:> Hi All, > > Sorry if this has been answered many times. > But i have been going through a lot of pages (via google search). > The more i search, the more its confusing me. > > I have a server with 6 (750G each) SATA disks with H/W Raid 5. > > I plan to allocate the space as follows > > swap 8G > /boot 100M > / 20G > -- and remaining space to /data{1,2,3,N} (equal sizes) > > However after the installation and reboot, i got an error about bad > partition for /data8 > > I had hit the 2T limit. > > Then i found this page at > http://www.knowplace.org/pages/howtos/linux_large_filesystems_support.php > > which speaks of using Parted/LVM2 and XFS. > > If i understand this correctly, > I need to have 1 disk to host the CentOS installation. > And i can use the other 5 disks in a RAID array > (label type gpt...) > > Is it not possible to partition and use the existing RAID 5 volume? > > I really am not sure about how to proceed for this big disk problem. > > Any ideas/links will really help. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > A.S > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosMy understanding is that grub and lilo are not able to boot off of GPT labeled disks currently. Given the size of currently available disks, this will probably change soon, however, for now you need a small partition to boot a large disk. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com
Anup Shukla wrote:> Hi All, > > Sorry if this has been answered many times. > But i have been going through a lot of pages (via google search). > The more i search, the more its confusing me. > > I have a server with 6 (750G each) SATA disks with H/W Raid 5. > > I plan to allocate the space as follows > > swap 8G > /boot 100M > / 20G > -- and remaining space to /data{1,2,3,N} (equal sizes) > > However after the installation and reboot, i got an error about bad > partition for /data8 > > I had hit the 2T limit. > > Then i found this page at > http://www.knowplace.org/pages/howtos/linux_large_filesystems_support.php > > which speaks of using Parted/LVM2 and XFS. > > If i understand this correctly, > I need to have 1 disk to host the CentOS installation. > And i can use the other 5 disks in a RAID array > (label type gpt...) > > Is it not possible to partition and use the existing RAID 5 volume? > > I really am not sure about how to proceed for this big disk problem. > > Any ideas/links will really help. >Dell PERC 5/i "does" have an option to create multiple LUNs. So, i have been quite moronic in not trying to apply logic initially. As for now, i am creating a small "system" disk, and multiple 500G "data" disks. I do not really need to have 1 big partition for the data. So this is a lot simpler setup i believe, and no chance of hitting the 2T limit. A big thanks to everyone who guided me, and my apologies if this qualifies as a "waste of time" post. This, for sure, is the best list i have ever experienced. Thank you all again. Regards, A.S