Re: Partitioning And Formatting A Large Disk (2086.09GB)
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On 01/30/07 13:13, Michael S. Peek wrote:
> Hello fellow Debian aficionados,
>
> I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to partition and format
> a large disk.
>
> I have a 3ware card and an array defined thusly:
>> # tw_cli /c4/u0 show
>>
>> Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Port Stripe Size(GB) Blocks
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> u0 RAID-5 OK - - 64K 2086.09
>> 4374845440
> When I went to try to partition the disk with fdisk, it said:
>> # fdisk /dev/sdb
>> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or
>> OSF disklabel
>> Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
>> until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
>> content won't be recoverable.
Maybe fdisk can't handle huge disks? Have you tried cfdisk or sfdisk?
Or, maybe, 3ware has it's own partitioning tool?
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