Re: formatting a 12.73 Tb disk on ROCKS 5.2
"Doll, Margaret Ann" <[email protected]>
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Mark, The parted commands don't work. [root@nas-0-0 ~]# parted /dev/sda -a optimal parted: invalid option -- a Usage: parted [OPTION]... [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]...]...] Apply COMMANDs with PARAMETERS to DEVICE. If no COMMAND(s) are given, run in interactive mode. [root@nas-0-0 ~]# parted /dev/sda GNU Parted 1.8.1 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel gpt Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sda will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? parted: invalid token: gpt Yes/No? yes New disk label type? [gpt]? (parted) mkpart pri ext4 2M 14TB parted: invalid token: ext4 File system type? [ext2]? Start? On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > > I removed the one partition created by fdisk, because it was too small. > > > > fdisk /dev/sda > > > > WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util > fdisk > > doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. > > > > Command (m for help): p > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 13999.8 GB, 13999848554496 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1702051 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > Yup. Is it really /dev/sda? > parted /dev/sdx -a optimal > mklabel gpt < this creates the GPT equivalent of an MBR > mkpart pri ext4 2M 14TB < this actually creates the partition. > Use mkfs.ext4 to format, though, not parted. > p > and you should see it all. I may be wrong with the size, it may be 13.8TB, > or something. Prompts may or may not be helpful (I did say it was user > surly). When you quit, it writes - it is *not* like fdisk, which gave you > the option of quit or write. > > Use ext4. The tools for ext3 have a lot of trouble with something this > size, and will take for-bloody-ever. > > mark > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list