2.5 TB iSCSI Raid - one partition problem - RH solution

[Götz Reinicke]

Cameron Simpson schrieb:
> On 27Jun2008 17:02, G?tz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:
>> I got a new iscsi raid with 6*500GB disks and set it up as one volume.
>> The volume got mounted, but I only can create a partition of about 275GB ...
>> I tried fdisk (util-linux 2.13-pre7), the original parted and a fresh  
>> compiled parted 1.8.8, but I do get errors from parted or fdisk only  
>> allows me to create the partition of the mentioned size. If I try to  
>> create a second partition, I do get the fdisk-message, that there are no  
>> more sctors free. Verifieing the partition tabel with fdisk shows  
>> 2440073647 unused sectors.
>>
>> The system is centos 5.2 with the latest updates.
> 
> The format supported by fdisk is the ancient DOS  partition format.
> I suspect you have reached its maximum size.
> 
> If this is the issue, I had the same problem on a Gentoo system some
> time ago. From memory, I had to:
>   - rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y and
>     CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y (I think)
>   - reboot in the new kernel so that it would understand
>     an OSF partition
>   - repartition the disc with gparted (not fdisk) to use the
>     new partition format
>   - proceed as normal thereafter
> 
> This is all from memory, but essentially I needed to change partition
> table formats.

Thanks for your hint, I was changing my search string on the RH Hompage 
and found this FAQ:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_11461.shtm

Seems to be the best way for me at the moment.

Regards

Götz Reinicke