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Install centos on 12Tb raid drive

Posted by ramya, 09-11-2011, 11:57 AM

I am trying to install centos 6 on my 12Tb dell server I am unable to use all 12Tb even if I have gpt Can anyone tell me how can I use all 12Tb as linux partition does not take value beyond 2 TB

Posted by PCS-Chris, 09-11-2011, 12:25 PM

You really want all 12TB of storage allocated to / ? Create a smaller / partition and you can partition and mount the remaining space afterwards.

Posted by GOT, 09-12-2011, 01:55 PM

Couple other points, as I went through this not too long ago. 12 TB is obviously RAID, so you want to set up two different disk volumes at a minimum in the array. The first one needs to be 2 TB or smaller to make things simpler. When installing Linux, don't even mess with that other disk volume yet. Once the OS is loaded, then you can follow these directions for formatting/mount a partition over 2 TB: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-...eater-2tb.html

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