[PVE-User] Fwd: partition size

[Robert Fantini]

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From: Robert Fantini <robertfantini at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] partition size
To: Ed Groth <ed at boxpopuli.com>


On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Ed Groth <ed at boxpopuli.com> wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> 3ware supports a "boot partition" option which will slice off a given
> size from the front of the array for exactly this purpose.
>
> AFAIK It is only an option when creating the raid, and will of course
> destroy all the data you had on the disks.
>
> After install, create a physical volume on the "second" hard drive and
> add it to your volume group.  Then you can extend the data partition
> etc.
>
>  Ed
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Robert Fantini <robertfantini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>  this weekend my son and I will be installing Proxmox 1.7 onto a
>> system containing 3-ware raid-6 .  the storage size will be approx
>> 6-TB.
>>
>>  from past experience the install process would use the entire disk.
>>  that would be ok, but my questions :
>>
>>  is there a size limit for   partitions?     [ I remember in the past
>> certain filesystem types had limits... but that could be old info].
>>
>>  if there is a limitation on size,  do newer install cd's allow
>> partition adjustments? [ like using fdisk  etc].
>>
>> thanks
>> Rob
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>

Thanks , that is what I ended up doing.

I was able to use parted for sdb ,  make a gpt table then a 8-TB xfs partition.