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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