Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Oxley
Stroller wrote: On 27 Aug 2008, at 05:28, Dave Oxley wrote: ... I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. ... Hi there, Is

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-28 Thread Stroller
On 27 Aug 2008, at 05:28, Dave Oxley wrote: ... I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. ... Hi there, Is the problem t

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-27 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Dave Oxley a écrit : So basically does anyone have any experience moving from an fdisk partition table to a GNU parted partition table without losing filesystems, data, etc? A partition table is a partition table, whatever is the tool you use to handle it. I didn't met your problem wit

[gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-26 Thread Dave Oxley
All, I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. So using fdisk I deleted partition 4 and recreated it from the same position whi