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AsdfQwerty
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 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject:
Suse 10.x x86-64 cannot see greater than 2TB volume on a 4TB 3ware raid
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Hello,
I created a 4TB raid volume using 10 x SATA 500GB Hard Drives and a
3ware 12-port raid controller.
I have installed Suse 10 X86-64 on the volume.
The operating system however does not see more than 2TB in one volume.
I had turned 3ware's auto-carving feature to "off".
What might I be doing wrong?
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Henrik Carlqvist
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:59 am Post subject:
Re: Suse 10.x x86-64 cannot see greater than 2TB volume on a 4TB 3ware raid
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"AsdfQwerty" <ashwini_ranganathan@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I created a 4TB raid volume ...
The operating system however does not see more than 2TB in one volume.
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You will need a 2.6 kernel compiled with CONFIG_LBD, for more info about
the 2 TB block device limit see http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
At the end of the web page there is some text called "Note Kernel
Limitations:".
regards Henrik
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Joshua Baker-LePain
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Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject:
Re: Suse 10.x x86-64 cannot see greater than 2TB volume on a 4TB 3ware raid
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On 2006-07-17, AsdfQwerty <ashwini_ranganathan@yahoo.com> wrote:
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I created a 4TB raid volume using 10 x SATA 500GB Hard Drives and a
3ware 12-port raid controller.
I have installed Suse 10 X86-64 on the volume.
The operating system however does not see more than 2TB in one volume.
I had turned 3ware's auto-carving feature to "off".
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What tools are you trying to use to partition/look at the device? fdisk
does not support >2TiB devices -- you must use parted. Also, you cannot
use the standard disk label (msdos). You must use a GPT disk label. Note
that this means you cannot boot from the device, as neither grub nor lilo
support gpt disk labels.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
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