[Cialug] CentOS & GPT

[Dave Weis]

I think it's supported in some fashion, I know I have a couple TB array on a Centos machine. I had to use parted and not fdisk to partition it though. Perhaps it's just on the root that needs to be old style partitions.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of L. V. Lammert
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 3:32 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] CentOS & GPT
> 
> At 02:48 PM 9/7/2010, you wrote:
> 
> >Given that CentOS 5 is based upon RHEL 5 and that RHEL 5 is 
> a couple of 
> >years old now it shouldn't be surprising that stuff like GPT 
> partitions 
> >aren't supported.  After all, that's kind of the point of an 
> >enterprise distribution.
> >Give the RHEL 6 beta a try and see if it supports GPT drives.
> 
> That's the same conclusion I came to, .. though I did get one 
> reply from a associate that suggested SLES. Trying OpenSuSE 
> right now [as I have a boot disk], .. might switch to Fedora.
> 
> Bottom line, however, SLES reportedly has GPT in current 
> versions, RHEL does not.
> 
>          Lee
> 
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