Re: RAID greater than 2TB on Fedora Core 3

[Thomas Cameron <thomas cameron camerontech com>]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:45 +0200, Masopust Christian wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> maybe this is a dumb question from an newbie, but...  ;-)
> 
> I've connected a RAID with appr. 2,6TB to my new installed 
> Fedora-System (Fedora Core 3, Adaptec 39160 and RAID is an 
> EonStore).
> 
> When running fdisk the biggest partition i can create is 2TB!
> 
> when trying to create the filesystem with mkfs.xfs directly 
> on /dev/sda i also get only 2TB !
> 
> so, what am i doing wrong?   is the adaptec 39160 the problem? 
> (this because i read something about such big raids working 
> with 3ware 9000 RAID cards)
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help! 
> Christian
> 
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Use parted, not fdisk.

See this post:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-February/msg00241.html

Thomas