major parted and fdisk issues on RHEL 5.5?

[Sanjay Chakraborty]

Did you scan the new storage ?  If manual scan don't work (sometime it
don't) reboot the server.

Sanjay Chakraborty

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Anne Moore <diabeticithink at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hello All!
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> I have multiple RHEL 5.5 boxes, and I’m trying to partition
> out (cut up) our 2.2 TB of storage on each one. However, neither Parted or
> Fdisk will allow it on any of the RHEL 5.5 boxes. (We do have 20 RHEL 4.0
> boxes, and it works perfectly on those.) Given it works fine with RHEL 4,0, I
> assume this is a bug with RHEL 5.5?
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> Here’s the problem:
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> I’ve used GPT and msdos tables with this.
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> Disk /dev/sdb: 2247GB
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> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
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> Partition Table: gpt
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> Number  Start  End  Size  File
> system  Name  Flags
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> (parted) mkpart primary ext3 1024 73000
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> (parted) mkpart primary ext3 60000 560000
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> (parted) mkpart primary ext3 560000 999999
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> (parted) mkpart extended ext3 999999 2143360
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> Now we have:
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> Number  Start   End
> Size    File system  Name
> Flags
>
>  1      1024MB
> 60.0GB
> 59.0GB
> primary
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>  2      60.0GB
> 560GB
> 500GB
> primary
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>  3      560GB
> 1000GB
> 440GB
> primary
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>  4
> 1000GB  2143GB
> 1143GB           extended
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> At this point, I can’t do anything else. I try to create
> logical drives out of the extended, like so:
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> I type in: (parted) mkpart logical ext3 999999 1400000
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> And I get back this error:
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> (parted) mkpart logical ext3 999999 1400000
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> Warning: You requested a partition from 1000GB to 1400GB.
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> The closest location we can manage is 2143GB to
> 2143GB.  Is this still
>
> acceptable to you?
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> Yes/No?
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> And it doesn’t matter what I type on that (parted) line, it
> always comes back with this same error message.
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> Again, this works fine in RHEL 4. But just won’t work on any
> of our RHEL 5.5.
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> Anyone have any ideas on this? Is perhaps RHEL 5.5 expecting
> something else on the command line? Or perhaps know of a patch that resolves
> this?
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> Thanks to you all for the help.
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> Anne M.
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> Rebate Systems of Southern California
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> Systems and Integration
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