RE: [opensuse] 2 TB RAID5 limit
Perhaps you are confused and talking about the 2TB limit of any single partition in an msdos disklabel?
GPT disklabels have no such limit, and you can create a gpt disklabel in parted manually at the command line from the opensuse installer, but the grub 0.97 in opensuse won't boot from it (neither do some motherboard bios's so you better try with ubuntu or something first.)
Grub2 understands GPT, but I have found no convenient way to get opensuse installed wirth a GPT disklabel and grub2. Ubuntu can.
I have an Adaptec card with 8 1TB drives set as raid 50 = 5.4 TB. Setting the disk label to GPT looks interesting; how do I accomplish that? The OS (Suse 10.3) is on a separate system drive so I don't need to boot from the raid. Thank you, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 26 September 2008 13:36:55 James D. Parra wrote:
Perhaps you are confused and talking about the 2TB limit of any single partition in an msdos disklabel?
GPT disklabels have no such limit, and you can create a gpt disklabel in parted manually at the command line from the opensuse installer, but the grub 0.97 in opensuse won't boot from it (neither do some motherboard bios's so you better try with ubuntu or something first.)
Grub2 understands GPT, but I have found no convenient way to get opensuse installed wirth a GPT disklabel and grub2. Ubuntu can.
I have an Adaptec card with 8 1TB drives set as raid 50 = 5.4 TB. Setting the disk label to GPT looks interesting; how do I accomplish that?
Do you have your RAID partitioned? If not, setting the disk label is not an option, and things should just work. If you do have it partitioned, use parted /dev/md0 mklabel gpt (obviously changing md0 to match the actual RAID device you use) Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James D. Parra schreef:
Perhaps you are confused and talking about the 2TB limit of any single partition in an msdos disklabel?
GPT disklabels have no such limit, and you can create a gpt disklabel in parted manually at the command line from the opensuse installer, but the grub 0.97 in opensuse won't boot from it (neither do some motherboard bios's so you better try with ubuntu or something first.)
Grub2 understands GPT, but I have found no convenient way to get opensuse installed wirth a GPT disklabel and grub2. Ubuntu can.
I have an Adaptec card with 8 1TB drives set as raid 50 = 5.4 TB. Setting the disk label to GPT looks interesting; how do I accomplish that?
The OS (Suse 10.3) is on a separate system drive so I don't need to boot from the raid.
Thank you,
~James
Have a look at this article. http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/linux_larger_2TB.html succes, Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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