The SAN manuf. Said that they recommend not to have 1 large 7TB array for reliability reasons. So we split it into several chunks, and used LVM w/ FC3 to make it one device. Then used ext3. From fstab. /dev/mapper/san_array-san_storage /var/resource ext3 defaults With spare drives and so on, the 7TB actually turned out to be 5TiB. You really start to notice the innacuraccy of the common measurement vs SI at that size. This is also my first fiber channel experience.. Seems very fast.. /dev/mapper/san_array-san_storage: Timing buffered disk reads: 282 MB in 3.02 seconds = 93.48 MB/se Chris -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Josh Welch Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 7:25 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: RE: [tclug-list] largest partition on fc3? Quoting Chris Smith <christophermsmith at gmail.com>: > You were right. It worked w/o fdisking.. The only other trick was to > change the size of the addressing from 1k to 8k. > > Thanks guys, > > Chris > Out of curiosity, what did you use for a filesystem? Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list