Re: Partitioning And Formatting A Large Disk (2086.09GB)
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:13:48PM -0500, 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.
> >
> >You must set cylinders.
> >You can do this from the extra functions menu.
> >Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
> >w(rite)
> Hmm.... Cylinders.
Hi Michael,
I've never played around with 2 TB (Only recently got above 2GB).
I'm I reading correctly that this is a raid5 array?
If so, I didn't know one used fdisk on an array.
I would have thought to use LVM.
Doug.
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