RAID5 partition not visible from dmesg/"fdisk -l" but visible fromESXGUI

[sunhux G]

Hi,

He ran Linux on VMware - just heard that there's 2TB limit
in VMWare


Thanks


On 7/8/08, chaim.rieger at gmail.com <chaim.rieger at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Check to see if there's a 2tb limit on 2.4 kernel
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> Subject: Re: RAID5 partition not visible from dmesg/"fdisk -l" but visible
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> GUI
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> Hi,
>
> ESX version: 3.5
> Kernal: 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix on an i686
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> Thanks and Regards
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> What version and kernel ?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "sunhux G" <sunhux at gmail.com>
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> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:57:00
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> Subject: RAID5 partition not visible from dmesg/"fdisk -l" but visible
> from
>                 ESX GUI
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm asking on behalf of a friend.
>
> He has a 5 TB  SCSI hotplug disk that's configured as hardware
> RAID 5.
>
> >From ESX GUI, he could see 4.6TB usable space (ie nett after RAID 5).
>
> After installing Linux OS, he could see 2TB mounted but ESX GUI
> showed 4.6TB.
>
> So he issued "fdisk -l" & "dmesg" (actually "dmesg | grep sector")
> that I suggested & /dev/sda is shown as 2TB but nothing was shown
> for the remaining 2.6TB.
>
> Where's the 2.6TB gone to?
>
> I always thought "fdisk -l" would show every disk resource that's
> presented (regardless on what kind of filesystem, be it raw or
> GFS or UFS or ...) or I'm missing something?
>
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> Thanks
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