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From: David Brown <david@westcontrol.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating an md with 3TB drives.
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:43:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j5umop$6sr$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E82DB7D.4050104@yazzy.org>

On 28/09/2011 10:31, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> On 9/28/11 10:23 AM, NeilBrown wrote:
> [...]
>
>>>
>>> Then I used fdisk to change the partition type to Linux raid auto
>>
>> You can do that if you like but it will have no effect. The "raid auto"
>> partition type only means anything on MBR partitions. You don't need
>> to, so
>> don't bother.
>
> Thanks Neil.
> Not using fdisk worked like a charm.
>

Using fdisk probably resulted in the disks going over to MBR rather than 
GPT, and thus you have a 2TB limit.

By the way, you should probably try the parted again and fix the 
alignment issue (rather than just "ignoring" it) - it will make a /big/ 
difference.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-28  8:05 Creating an md with 3TB drives Marcin M. Jessa
2011-09-28  8:23 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-28  8:31   ` Marcin M. Jessa
2011-09-28  8:43     ` David Brown [this message]
2011-09-28 15:09       ` Marcin M. Jessa
2011-09-29  9:09         ` David Brown
2011-09-29  9:23           ` Marcin M. Jessa
2011-09-29 11:18             ` David Brown
2011-10-05 22:25 ` Sebastian Muniz
2011-10-05 23:20   ` Jérôme Poulin

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