Huge Partition
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Wed Apr 21 00:34:15 UTC 2004
[root at archive root]# df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 39370 5997 31374 17% /
/dev/sda1 981 25 906 3% /boot
/dev/sda5 187200 18929 158762 11% /home
/dev/sdb1 1884920 366436 1480185 20% /mnt/storage
none 1933 0 1933 0% /dev/shm
the partition is ext3... I just created it, didn't do anything special...
joelja
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> How does one go about getting a partition larger than 1TB?
>
> I've got a 3Ware Escalade with 12 250G drives. I've installed all the
> regular OS files & directories on 2 of those drives mirrored as RAID 1. That
> works fine.
>
> Id' like to use all but one of the remaining drives as a single large
> partition on RAID 5 (9 drives - useable capacity of 8 = 2TB).
>
> The last drive is a hot spare.
>
> The Escalade 8506 has a 2TB limit, and it will set up the RAID 5 at 2TB.
> However, FC1 won't partition past 1TB.
>
> What are my options? Will FC2 help?
>
> The use of that 2TB space is for SAMBA, to store large CAD drawings.
>
>
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