<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Got it working.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Forget about using parted. I just went and make the filesystem straight into the device.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> mkfs.xfs –L /home -f /dev/sdb <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> that did the job<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Now df correctly reports 2.6 TB:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> /dev/sda3 17580928 698932 16881996 4% /<o:p></o:p> /dev/sda1 256666 8460 234954 4% /boot<o:p></o:p> none 517192 0 517192 0% /dev/shm<o:p></o:p> /dev/sdb 2685296640 528 2685296112 1% /home<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<o:p></o:p> /dev/sda3 17G 687M 17G 5% /<o:p></o:p> /dev/sda1 251M 8.3M 230M 4% /boot<o:p></o:p> none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm<o:p></o:p> /dev/sdb 2.6T 528K 2.6T 1% /home<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> xfs_info:<o:p></o:p> meta-data=/home isize=256 agcount=32, agsize=20979904 blks<o:p></o:p> = sectsz=512<o:p></o:p> data = bsize=4096 blocks=671356928, imaxpct=25<o:p></o:p> = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1<o:p></o:p> naming =version 2 bsize=4096<o:p></o:p> log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=1<o:p></o:p> = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks<o:p></o:p> realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Looks like the problem was with parted.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Omar Castañeda Acosta Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:29 PM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">fedora-list@redhat.com</st1:PersonName> Subject: Disk Array > 2TB<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve got a system with a 3ware 9000 RAID card with 12 250GB SATA drives.<o:p></o:p> And another one with two 3ware 9000 RAID cards each with 8 250GB SATA drives.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Both are running kernel 2.6.8-1 (521) 686smp (Systems are dual Xeon 2Ghz HT).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve got no problem with the 2nd system. Both arrays are 1.75 TB and running fine. However I’d like to join both disks on a single volume.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The 1st system I cannot get the system to recognize the full 2.5 TB.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> This is my syslog:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Sep 28 14:13:02 heracles kernel: 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.001.<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:02 heracles kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:01.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: scsi2 : 3ware 9000 Storage Controller<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi2: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at 0xf3841000, IRQ: 201.<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi2: Firmware FE9X 2.02.00.012, BIOS BE9X 2.02.01.037, Ports: 12.<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: Vendor: 3ware Model: Logical Disk 00 Rev: 1.00<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: SCSI device sdb: 5370855424 512-byte hdwr sectors (2749878 MB)<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back, no read (daft)<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: sdb: sdb1<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:04 heracles scsi.agent[2021]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:1f.0/0000:03:01.0/host2/2:0:0:0<o:p></o:p> Sep 28 14:13:32 heracles kernel: XFS mounting filesystem sdb1<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> However df (and everything else) reports:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on<o:p></o:p> /dev/sda3 17580928 680736 16900192 4% /<o:p></o:p> /dev/sda1 256666 8460 234954 4% /boot<o:p></o:p> none 517192 0 517192 0% /dev/shm<o:p></o:p> /dev/sdb1 537810560 528 537810032 1% /root/home<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<o:p></o:p> /dev/sda3 17G 665M 17G 4% /<o:p></o:p> /dev/sda1 251M 8.3M 230M 4% /boot<o:p></o:p> none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm<o:p></o:p> /dev/sdb1 513G 528K 513G 1% /root/home<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> What is going wrong?<o:p></o:p> How can I manage to join both 1.75TB on a single volume? (volume manager doesn’t support above 2TB does it?)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p> Omar Castañeda Acosta<o:p></o:p> Sysadmin<o:p></o:p> iDEA<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>