create single partition for 3.5 TB

[David Sparks]

Arivazhagendran.S wrote:
> Dear All
>            
>             I have one issue in Poweredge 2950 with Linux EL4-32 bit & 
> EL5-64bit. I can’t make a part above 1.4TB I am used commands fdisk and 
> parted also. Place do the need full.
>  
> Hardware Details:
> Poweredge 2950
> SAS PERC 5/i Controller
> 750GB HDD * 6

I don't know what the requirements are for other filesystems but if 
you're running XFS on this partition be warned that you may need lots of 
RAM to check/repair the filesystem.  1GB RAM per 10 million inodes 
according to this msg:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-03/msg00142.html

Cheers,

ds


> Requirement:  configure RAID5 750GB*6=3.5XX TB (don’t spite two logical 
> disk in RAID configuration)
>                        
> We are used 40GB for OS balance space create single partition for 
> 3.5TB     
>  
> /dev/sda                      ext3
> #fdisk –l command not able to more then 1.4TB
> Parted
> #parted print /dev/sda (Asking massage lose all data ignore /cancel)
> Ignore it’s removed all OS partition (/, /boot, /swap, etc)
>  
> Reg
> Arivu