formatting a 12.73 Tb disk on ROCKS 5.2

[Doll, Margaret Ann]

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.


The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1702051.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

WARNING: The size of this disk is 14.0 TB (13999848554496 bytes).
DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes
larger than 2.2 TB (2199023255040 bytes). Use parted(1) and GUID
partition table format (GPT).


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

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) <
jonathan.w.miner at baesystems.com> wrote:

>
> ________________________________________
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] on
> behalf of Doll, Margaret Ann [margaret_doll at brown.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:14
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: formatting a 12.73 Tb disk on ROCKS 5.2
>
> 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
>
> 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?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sounds like /dev/sda1 is defined as a 2T partition?  Run fdisk (or other
> partitioning tool) to see what partitions are defined on /dev/sda/
>
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