Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:19:26 -0800 (PST) Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good? > Use parted/gparted and select EFI GUID Partition support in your kernel config, under Files types --> Partition types. Make the partition an

Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/11/05, Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good? AFAIK, yes. LVM2 would be the "non-traditional" partitioning scheme of choice for Linux. Plus, you can grow the filesystem to a second array later if you need more space.

Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread Bryan Whitehead
So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good? On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/11/05, kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bryan Whitehead wrote: I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares) I get this problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /

Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/11/05, kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Whitehead wrote: > > > > I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares) > > > > I get this problem: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc > > fdisk is known to have issues with large volumes. I don't recall offhand > what t

Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread Bryan Whitehead
good idea, I suppose I've put off learning LVM long enough... :P On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/11/05, Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares) I get this problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc Why pa

Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread kashani
Bryan Whitehead wrote: I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares) I get this problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc fdisk is known to have issues with large volumes. I don't recall offhand what the best tool is, but I believe partd and cfdisk would work better th

Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/11/05, Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares) > > I get this problem: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc Why partition it? Just make a filesystem that uses the entire disk. Or use LVM to divide it up into logical d