On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 11:12 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
The other option is to leave the 3TB drive unpartitioned.
Can opensuse use a unpartitioned 3TB drive as a PV for LVM, then boot from one of the LVs with no physical partitions at all? I don't know, I always partition my drives. I don't know about the boot issues but I wouldn't recommend using an unpartitioned drive for LVM. It's all too easy to run a command that assumes some other structure at the beginning of the disk (MBR etc or whatever) and overwrite the LVM metadata. It's recoverable, of course, but is an unwanted and unnecessary pain. IIRC, using a raw disk is also officially deprecated.
I thought the OP mentioned "drives", not a single drive. If so, then RAID is a possibility, with LVM on the RAID array.
Correct! afaics you meet this problem in several situations: A) a single disk, larger than 2.2 TB B) several smaller disk, forming a RAID with a combined total size larger than 2.2 TB C) Combination of A) and B) I got a couple of 3TB disks and wanted to make a "raid 1+0" Not shure i can stuff more than the planned four disks... But if so, it would only solve the booting issue Anyway, i understand that it is still "an issue" in general. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org