On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Stefan Drees wrote: > Hi, > yesterday i installed debian etch amd64 on an FSC Server with an dell > md1000 diskarray attached. > The total size of the diskarray is 6TB and i can see the complete 6TB in > fdisk and cfdisk. > If i try to create an 6TB partition, it seems to work but after leavinf > fdisk or cfdisk > and reentering it shows me only an 1,5TB partition and i can´create > another partition. > > Any hints? What can i do? > Some RAID hardware has a physical partition size (or logical disk size, in terms of what Intel calls it) limitation. At work we have an HP StorageWorks tray with ~5.6TB of SCSI disks in it. The Intel RAID card which controls does not allow partitions bigger than 2TB. The solution for us was to create 3 ~1.8TB partitions and put them together as 3 physical volumes in a LVM volume group. We then just created one bug logical volume of ~5.6TB. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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