[opensuse] SuSE studio, NFS/httpd/misc appliance, and 4TB drives
Hi, all -- You may remember from earlier this year that I asked about how to not spend a lot of time building and maintaining my disk farm server and was pointed to susestudio. It sounds awesome, and I'm gonna get there -- I promise :-) Actually, it's time, because I've just gotten a pair of 4T drives and find that I can't access them. I only have an older BIOS-based system available, but I'm hopeful that I can find GPT-enabled kernels in the studio images so that I can use these. My plan is to boot from flash drive in order to maintain as many SATA slots as possible for data drives, so I don't expect to have to boot from these guys; I just need to be able to address them. I don't know if that makes my BIOS-based adventures any easier, though. Can anyone provide any pointers on - using >2T drives for data in a BIOS-based system - susestudio appliances and GPT and large drives, oh my - and, since I'm here, getting started with susestudio to get me headed in the right direction? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
David T-G wrote:
Hi, all --
You may remember from earlier this year that I asked about how to not spend a lot of time building and maintaining my disk farm server and was pointed to susestudio. It sounds awesome, and I'm gonna get there -- I promise :-)
Actually, it's time, because I've just gotten a pair of 4T drives and find that I can't access them. I only have an older BIOS-based system available, but I'm hopeful that I can find GPT-enabled kernels in the studio images so that I can use these.
Regular openSUSE kernels come with GPT support.
Can anyone provide any pointers on
- using >2T drives for data in a BIOS-based system
What do you want to know? It works fine. I've been using Western Digital 3Tb drives for two years I think. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Per, et al -- ...and then Per Jessen said... % % David T-G wrote: % ... % > available, but I'm hopeful that I can find GPT-enabled kernels in the % > studio images so that I can use these. % % Regular openSUSE kernels come with GPT support. Yay! That's great. % % > Can anyone provide any pointers on % > % > - using >2T drives for data in a BIOS-based system % % What do you want to know? It works fine. I've been using Western % Digital 3Tb drives for two years I think. If it's that easy, that's great :-) In my little reading to date I was worried about needing UEFI or otherwise jumping through hoops. It sounds like, since these won't in any way be boot drives, things should go well. I'll keep all posted :-) Thanks again & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
% % > Can anyone provide any pointers on % > % > - using >2T drives for data in a BIOS-based system % % What do you want to know? It works fine. I've been using Western % Digital 3Tb drives for two years I think. If it's that easy, that's great :-) In my little reading to date I was worried about needing UEFI or otherwise jumping through hoops. It sounds like, since these won't in any way be boot drives, things should go well. I'll keep all posted :-) -----Original Message----- No hoops like that, just like Per said, i've been using 4*3TB drives on an ancient DELL 830 ... hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
El 25/09/13 16:47, Per Jessen escribió:
Regular openSUSE kernels come with GPT support.
Also (in factory) you do not need an /etc/fstab file to mount either the root filesystem or home if you use GPT , systemd reads the metadata and proceeds accordingly. -- "If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." - Edsger Dijkstra -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Cristian -- ...and then Cristian Rodríguez said... % % Also (in factory) you do not need an /etc/fstab file to mount either the % root filesystem or home if you use GPT , systemd reads the metadata and % proceeds accordingly. Heh. Fun! But it sounds like magic and scares me a little ;-) Thanks again to all & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
On 25/09/13 20:07, David T-G wrote:
Can anyone provide any pointers on
- using >2T drives for data in a BIOS-based system
The BIOS is only interested in the size of your /boot partition - if it is entirely within the part of the drive the BIOS can "see" then there's no problem since the kernel takes over disk access before any other partitions are mounted. Dx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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