Re: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB

[Mark Lord]

Ingo Freund wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got a RAID5 (driver aacraid for an ICP9047MA) with four
> 750GB hdds which provides a 2.25TB sized device.
> None of the until now used tools will work with that device.
> fdisk complains about missing cylinder count.
> cfdisk misses the device size.
> parted shows the right device size but only creates a partion
> with 51GB.
> What am I supposed to do to work with this device?

Create a single RAID which covers the entire drive set
(as it sounds like you have already done).

Then use LVM on top of that, instead of conventional partitions.

-ml
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