[CentOS] FW: Partitioning help

Monty Shinn
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:04:05 -0000

Rajeev R. Veedu wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have Centos server 4.5 with 3.3TB raid disk on a 3 ware controller.
> Now the problem is that I am not able to see the partition in full since
> it shows only 1.2TB.
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> I have created a partition with Parted and (GNU PARTED) and I have seen
> it is 3.3 T there. However I have to make this partition on ext3 with
> make2efs ?j  /dev/sda1 and after the formatting it went to 1.2T.
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> Could someone help me to address this issue by suggesting a proper
> partitioning utility which does this for me?. It is a production server
> on which 2 hdd had been failed and I need to make it up and running ASAP.
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> Any suggestion and help would be really appreciated.
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> Regards,
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> *Rajeev R. Veedu*
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Rajeev,

Make sure you have the disk label set to gpt.  When using parted, use
the mklabel option.

HTH,

Monty