Re: large raid array and fedora 5

Thanks Doug and Henrik. I got it work now. I gave up on Fedora 5
because it produced some weird messages. Installing debian etch was
very smooth.
tat

On May 19, 2:02 pm, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqv...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
tat <tuantran...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to create only one linux partition on a raid 5 array (3.5 TB). I
could not do that with fdisk in fedora 5. I read the net and found out
about 2TB size limit.
My questions are How can I create a single partition (ext3) on raid 5
array? What command should I use?

One way to skip the 2 TB partition table limit would be not to create any
partition table at all. As you only want only one single partition,
instead of mouting a partition like /dev/sda1 you could mount the entire
disk /dev/sda instead.

Assuming that your raid disk is called /dev/sda you could do something
like:

mkreiserfs /dev/sda
mount /dev/sda /mnt/hd

Of course a line in fstab will make mounting more simple.
I'm not familiar with ext3 or fedora 5. I usually prefer reiserfs, but
maybe feodora doesn't support reiserfs. If there is some 2 TB limitation
in ext3 you might have to choose another file system.

regards Henrik
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