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From: KR on 4 Apr 2008 18:48
I'm setting up a new server with a 5 terabyte 3Ware RAID array, and I'd
like to install Slackware on it. The problem is that the MBR
partitioning scheme only supports devices/partitions of 2 Tb or less.

All the drives in the server belong to the RAID array (and there's no
room for more drives), so I need to be able to boot from the array.

What do I need to do to get around the 2 Tb limit? Can I use GPT instead
of MBR? Do I then need to recompile the kernel on the Slackware DVD, as
it seems to lack GPT support?

KR
From: jim dorey on 4 Apr 2008 22:54
KR wrote:
> I'm setting up a new server with a 5 terabyte 3Ware RAID array, and I'd
> like to install Slackware on it. The problem is that the MBR
> partitioning scheme only supports devices/partitions of 2 Tb or less.
>
> All the drives in the server belong to the RAID array (and there's no
> room for more drives), so I need to be able to boot from the array.
>
> What do I need to do to get around the 2 Tb limit? Can I use GPT instead
> of MBR? Do I then need to recompile the kernel on the Slackware DVD, as
> it seems to lack GPT support?
>
> KR

make a whole lotta 1.9tb parts, then lvm them together.
From: Realto Margarino on 5 Apr 2008 00:11
jim dorey <skaar(a)ns.sympatico.ca> says:
>KR wrote:
>> I'm setting up a new server with a 5 terabyte 3Ware RAID array, and I'd
>> like to install Slackware on it. The problem is that the MBR
>> partitioning scheme only supports devices/partitions of 2 Tb or less.
>>
>> All the drives in the server belong to the RAID array (and there's no
>> room for more drives), so I need to be able to boot from the array.
>>
>> What do I need to do to get around the 2 Tb limit? Can I use GPT instead
>> of MBR? Do I then need to recompile the kernel on the Slackware DVD, as
>> it seems to lack GPT support?
>>
>> KR

>make a whole lotta 1.9tb parts, then lvm them together.

Are you the hockey player?

cordially, as always,

rm
From: jim dorey on 5 Apr 2008 03:47
Realto Margarino wrote:

>> make a whole lotta 1.9tb parts, then lvm them together.
>
> Are you the hockey player?
>
> cordially, as always,
>
> rm

i used to play field hockey as part of phys ed in high school, and i can
barely skate, but if you're referencing a particular person, no, i'm not
this hockey player person.
From: KR on 5 Apr 2008 10:15
jim dorey wrote:
>
> make a whole lotta 1.9tb parts, then lvm them together.

A bit hard to do that when the partition table itself can't "see" more
than the first 2 Tb of the device.

KR
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