Re: 3TB disk hassles

[Pedro Venda (SYSADM)]

Neil Conway wrote:
> Howdy...
>
> After much banging of heads on walls, I am throwing in the towel and
> asking the experts ;-) ... To cut a long story short:
>
> Is it possible to make a 3TB disk work properly in Linux?
>
> Our "disk" is 12x300GB in RAID5 (with 1 hot-spare) on a 3ware 9500-S12,
> so it's actually 2.7TiB ish.  It's also /dev/sda - i.e., the one and
> only disk in the system.

not meaning to criticise... but isn't it a good idea to have a separate raid1 
volume to boot the system?

is there a good reason why one should mix system & storage?

I think that would solve your problem.

regards,
pedro venda.

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Pedro João Lopes Venda
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