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From: "James D. Parra"
Hello,
Is there a way around the 2 TB software RAID limit?
Thank you,
James
There is no such limit. I have several software raid0, 5, and 10 well over 2TB 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. Failing all that, what you CAN do more or less easily and from the normal installer interface, although it's inconvenient, is split your individual physical disks into 2TB (or smaller) partitions, and then add all the partitions to the software raid array. The end result will be a single array that uses all the space, merely it's more annoying to do the initial install. Make sure aside from the big partitions for the raid5 you also define at least one small partition on each physical drive, and put those all into a raid1, for /boot. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org