create single partition for 3.5 TB

[Fischer, Carl]

     Fred has half the answer for this one.  The other half is that the
megaraid_sas driver that ships with RH4 doesn't support >2tb disks.  You
need the updated driver.  I worked around this problem by partitioning
my RAID5 (in hardware) into an 80 GB / partition and a 3.5 TB partition.
I installed on the 80 GB partition, upgraded the driver on my CentOS
distro, and then partitioned (using the pretty GUI tool that ships with
CentOS) and formatted my 3.5 TB logical volume.  

 - C

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Carl H. Fischer IV, PhD	 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory S3-227	 
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA 02420

-- QUOTE --
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:07:12 -0400
> From: "Fred Skrotzki" <fskrotzki at textwise.com>
> Subject: RE: create single partition for 3.5 TB
> To: <linux-poweredge at dell.com>

what you are attempting to do can't be done once you exceed the 2 tb
park.  Please search the archives for further information.  once you
create a partition exceeding 1.9999tb you can't use fdisk and a msdos
label (Which is what is needed to boot) you need to use GPT.