Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> I used the BIOS setting to create the raid system. I couldn't format it,
> so I ran fdisk, deleted the partition and created a new partition. The
> new partition with fdisk was approximately the same size as the original
> partition created by the BIOS.
Ok, I don't know what you mean by the BIOS setting - on what? Is this
attached to a server, or is this an "appliance"? If the former, do you
mean the firmware for an HBA?
At any rate, you *cannot* use fdisk to do anything with this. There are
hard-coded limits with fdisk - you *must* use either parted (which is user
surly, if not outright hostile) or gparted (the GUI version, which is,
well, ok). And you must specify that the partition table - there is no MBR
as we know it, for something this big - must be GPT, not MBR.
mark
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
>> > I have a raid-5, /dev/sda on a NAS node that has 12.73 Tb of space.
>> >
>> > mkfs xfs /dev/sda1
>> > mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
>> > mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/sda1
>> >
>>
>> Question 1: Margaret - did you use parted or gparted, or fdisk, or some
>> NAS utility to create the logical partition? If anything other than an
>> HBA
>> controller, you've cannot use fdisk, which cannot deal with anything
>> larger than 2TB.
>>
>> mark
>>
>> > I can use
>> >
>> > mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 works, but it only formats the first 2Tb of space.
>> >
>> > filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/sdb1 19G 2.8G 16G 16% /
>> > /dev/sdb5 875G 200M 830G 1% /state/partition
>> > /dev/sdb2 4.8G 184M 4.4G 5% /var
>> > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
>> > /dev/sda1 2.0T 199M 1.9T 1% /bigdisk1
>> >
>> > How do I get the complete raid system formatted?
>> >
>> > Thanks
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