-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/07 13:13, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hello fellow Debian aficionados, > > I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to partition and format > a large disk. > > I have a 3ware card and an array defined thusly: >> # tw_cli /c4/u0 show >> >> Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Port Stripe Size(GB) Blocks >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> u0 RAID-5 OK - - 64K 2086.09 >> 4374845440 > When I went to try to partition the disk with fdisk, it said: >> # fdisk /dev/sdb >> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or >> OSF disklabel >> Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, >> until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous >> content won't be recoverable.
Maybe fdisk can't handle huge disks? Have you tried cfdisk or sfdisk? Or, maybe, 3ware has it's own partitioning tool? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFv51GS9HxQb37XmcRAo4CAKDMZG1/vAs1Y0AyYK/s10lRLme22wCglVvK fk41VI/xZzIQb5r51R/yY6U= =kCri -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
