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I have a server with a 3ware 9690sa-i8 raid card installed. I have configured a raid with a size of 12TB which i would like to use for Windows. It seems whenever the partition table is MSDOS the limit of a partiton is 2TB. Changing to the GPT partiton table under a live cd with … Read more
I’ve got a raw, blank GPT disk for use in a UEFI system. I need to create the partitions on it using diskpart. The only tutorial I’ve found so far is for diskpart.efi, which I believe is slightly different from the command-line diskpart. MS guide to GPT partitions with diskpart.efi Also the guide says to … Read more
I’ve got a raw, blank GPT disk for use in a UEFI system. I need to create the partitions on it using diskpart. The only tutorial I’ve found so far is for diskpart.efi, which I believe is slightly different from the command-line diskpart. MS guide to GPT partitions with diskpart.efi Also the guide says to … Read more
Looking for a bit guidance configuring hardware raid on a new dell t610, I am basically trying to install Hyper-vR2 as the parent OS, then I will run SBS11 and WIin2008R2 virtually on top of that. The raid card is a Perc H700 and it has 4 2TB sata disks. WHen I set it up … Read more
CentOS 6.4 /dev/sdb is a hardware raid. I’m getting this error reported from ‘parted -l’: <snip> Model: JetStor JetStor -VOL#000 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 39.0TB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 39.0TB 39.0TB primary Error: partition length of 6601834496 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of … Read more
I’m trying to install CentOS 5.11 on DL160 G5, with 4 bays holding 3TB sized drives. The installation with default partition layout completes successfully, however on boot I get to a blinking cursor screen – it’s not even reaching GRUB. I’ve tried updating BIOS to latest one available (17/11/2011), and even manually sizing the boot … Read more
I am facing strange problem with XFS file system. Below is the exact scenario: I’d a corrupt 2 TB disk with XFS (I/O error), so that decide to rescue data from old disk to new disk. I’d run ddrescue to rescue data to new disk. ddrescue finished successfully except 204 kB data. After that I … Read more
Attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04 Server onto a newly initialised disk. Using UEFI, and a 4.5TB / partition. After installing without issue, on rebooting, the server will not get past Grub. Hardware: New Supermicro Server Hardware 6 x SSD RAID 5 – 4.5TB Virtual Disk BIOS Fully updated Installation Steps: Selection of UEFI Virtual CD … Read more
i have this structure of hdd on my server: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: EA206948-7BBC-4AD9-8835-40746D07F575 Device Start End Sectors Size … Read more
