[Cialug] Gpt drives and management tools

[Tom Pohl]

I can speak to this!  I just put 2 6TB servers into play :)

I had to take my raid array and turn the 6TB array into 3 - 2TB  
virtual drives in the SCSI bios.  If you use LVM, it's no big deal  
putting them back together to make a 6TB filesystem, but apparently  
linux doesn't like to see a single drive bigger than 2TB.

-Tom



On Jul 3, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

>
> I'm trying to format some multi-terabyte drives and I think I need  
> to try a
> different angle.  Mkfs.ext3 and xfs seem not to recognize the full  
> device
> when I identify it using /dev/sdb1 but it seems these tools don't  
> recognize
> the "UUID=95e343a2-2189-41c5-a4ea-45922c4a95e2" type of label.
>
> Is parted the only way to format these drives?  I couldn't get  
> parted to use
> anything but ext2 or linux-swap when I was trying to use it.
>
> Am I better off formatting several smaller drives and tying them  
> together
> with LVM?  Ultimately, I just want a simple flat space where I can  
> put very
> large files.  (The drives are already protected by hardware-RAID 6 )
>
> Any hints?  Thanks.  (I'm using Ubuntu Fiesty).  I'm not finding a  
> lot of
> usefult stuff with Google, maby you have to join a cloister to get  
> the good
> info on this stuff?
>
> -Nate
>
> Nathan Smith  McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.  515.288.3667
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