[TriLUG] fdisk partition question

[Kevin Flanagan]

Jason,

	The cciss is the newer array controllers, the ida is the older ones.



Kevin

Jason Tower wrote:
> try to fdisk /dev/cciss/ida/c0d0 and c0d1, those should be the two 
> logical disks (or /dev/ida/cciss/c0d0, i forget).  create partitions 
> (c0d0p1, p2, and so on), run mkfs.ext3 to put a filesystem on them, then 
> modify /etc/fstab with the appropriate info.  redhat uses labels to 
> identify partitions in fstab, but i prefer device names.  whatever works 
> for you.
> 
> jason
> 
> Chris Bullock wrote:
> 
>> I can't seem to get the manual fdisk partition thing down.  Got a new HP
>> DL360 with a direct attached HP MSA 30.  The DL360 has a RAID card that
>> limits the file size to 2TB.  The MSA 30 has 14 300GB scsi drives.  I 
>> have
>> configured the RAID controller to have 2 logical drives both with 1.5TB
>> logical drives.  Installed RHEL and it will not let me create the
>> partitions the size I want at install time.  This is what I need, I have
>> the OS on the RAID1 logical drive on the DL360.  The problem comes when I
>> try to fdisk the other direct attached storage.  First, how do I know 
>> what
>> to fdisk?  I know I need to start with /dev/cciss/?? but there are 2052
>> possibilites after that. I would assume after I find what device I 
>> want to
>> fdisk, i would run fdisk /dev/cciss/$drive, then n for the new 
>> partition. after that I would assume to mkfs.ext3 and after that 
>> create a lable and
>> add it to fstab.  Any help would be appreciated, email or web link.
>> Regards,
>> Chris
>>
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