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From: "James D. Parra"
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.
Didn't you say software raid ? this is hardware raid which is utterly different and this is exactly one of the main differences. Use dd to wipe out the msdos disklabel at the beginning of the disk, (because gpt disklabels go at the end of the disk and it confuses various utils when both are present.) then update to a recent enough parted that can create gpt disklabels and can handle large sizes (gpt has an extremely large limit, but even fairly recent versions of parted still barfed on the numbers when trying to create a large partition, but that was a limitation on parted alone. I know the version on the opensuse 11 installer is fine, (as well as in opensuse itself of course.) same goes for the latest live cd of opensuse, ubuntu, knoppix, and there is a dedicated little cd image just for parted/gparted, and "super grub disk" has it too I beleive. I don't know off hand if the parted/gparted or anything else on opensuse 10.3 is new enough to create a large gpt partition without at least some sort of user interface bugginess if not plain inability. However, this is all moot in your case. Since this is not the booting drive and you apparently do not want to break it up into chunks anyways, you do not need any disklabel or partitions. Just mkfs the whole disk device (/dev/sdc instead of /dev/sdc1 or so). I do it all the time. -- 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