Topic: sme won't make partition bigger than 696gb

[CtdeBlesse]

I am making a affa backup server for all my smeservers. My first try was with SME installed on a "older" 120gb IDE disk and than 4x1gb in software raid 5. but one after the other was trown out of the software raid array so i bought a hardware raidcontroller. Here i made the raid array on with 4x1tb disks (arround 2.7tb usable). but now i am trying to make one big partition on it (array is /dev/sda). but with the default value's the sda1 partion won't get any bigger than 696gb. I googled for a couple of houres, but i didn't find something that works.

This is the commands

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[root@dbiom-bu-ex ~]# fdisk /dev/sda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 364602.
There is nothing wrong with that, but it is larger than 1024, and
works with certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at startup (eg, old versions of LILO)
2) boot and partitioning software from other operating
    systems, such as FDISK DOS and OS / 2 FDISK

Command (m for help): p
Disk / dev / sda: 2998.9 GB, 2998960914432 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors / track, 364602 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

Command (m for help): n
command action
    e extended
    p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-97253, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or + size or + or + sizeM sizeK (1-97253, default 97253):
Using default value 97253

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has changed!

Calling ioctl () to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.


I am not a sme (linux) expert, so i hope that there is somebody that can help me further, of give me a "kick" in the right direction.


++EDIT++

Translated the command to english

[Stefano]

We don't speak dutch.. so you'd better translate, thank you

anyway, on one server I have:

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[root@server ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2              14      182401  1465031610   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2              14      182401  1465031610   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdc: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdc2              14      182401  1465031610   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdd: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdd2              14      182401  1465031610   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/md1: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md2: 4500.5 GB, 4500576534528 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1098773568 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-0: 4497.9 GB, 4497938055168 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1098129408 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 507904 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table


[CtdeBlesse]

We don't speak dutch.. so you'd better translate, thank you

anyway, on one server I have:

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[root@server ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2              14      182401  1465031610   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2              14      182401  1465031610   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdc: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdc2              14      182401  1465031610   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdd: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1   *           1          13      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdd2              14      182401  1465031610   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/md1: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md2: 4500.5 GB, 4500576534528 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1098773568 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-0: 4497.9 GB, 4497938055168 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1098129408 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 507904 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table


See the translation.

But you got 3x1500gb in softwareraid x??? don't know if that makes much of a differents.


And if i go over the default last cylinder of 97253 it says the is out of range

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Last cylinder or + size or + or + sizeM sizeK (1-97253, default 97253): 182401
Value out of range.


[Stefano]

But you got 3x1500gb in softwareraid x??? don't know if that makes much of a differents.

4x1.5 TB in sw raid5 no spare

SME was setup on it without any problem

If I understand correctly, you have an existing SME on a 120 GB ide disk (i.e. hdA) and you are trying to add a raid array (sdA, about 3TB).. but you have some problems to create partitions on sdA.. right?

[CtdeBlesse]

4x1.5 TB in sw raid5 no spare

SME was setup on it without any problem

If I understand correctly, you have an existing SME on a 120 GB ide disk (i.e. hdA) and you are trying to add a raid array (sdA, about 3TB).. but you have some problems to create partitions on sdA.. right?

Yes, that is about right. but i can not create partitions bigger than 696gb....

My first try was with 4x1tb in software raid, but this failed hard... so that is why i use a hardware raid controller.

(more information about server ---->its a rack server with room for 8x sata drives, these drives are connected to a LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i. If i got this working i can copy the files from my old backup server tot this one and create another raid 5 array with 4x1tb. that is why i used a "older" IDE drive, so i can use all the 8 sata bays. second raid array is for tempory storage)

[Stefano]

since you will keep SME on the ide disk, you could try to run lvm directly on sda (pvcreate /dev/sda) and then create the f.s. on the lv..

google will tell you more