[CentOS] Formatting a large disk

Shawn Everett
Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:01:04 -0000

As William mentioned the easiest way is to format the drive after the fact.

Create an LVM and write it directly onto the drive.  Things work great that way.
I haven't tried formatting a raw device.

Shawn
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Rajeev R Veedu
  To: centos at centos.org
  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 it for ext3. The default
partitioning utility doesn't do this. The OS sits on another SATA disk and
each time during the installation it doesn't format the full disk which is
3TB.



  Could someone suggest another disk partitioning utility (other than fdisk)
please?



  Thanks



  Rajeev R. Veedu



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