DELL PERC H700 RAID 5 can't crete partition larger than 2 TB

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Install-Boot
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Hi,
I trying to install SLES 11 SP2 in a PowerEdge DELL T310. The server has 3 x 2TB HD’s with PERC H700 RAID 5 witch give me working 4TB of drive.

But I can’t create a partition larger than 2TB. Is there a way to create a partition larger than 2TB?

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Hi
Are you using 4K sectors?

Have a read through here as well;
http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/11-SP2/

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On 10/11/2012 03:04 PM, animati wrote:[color=blue]

Hi,
I trying to install SLES 11 SP2 in a PowerEdge DELL T310. The server
has 3 x 2TB HD’s with PERC H700 RAID 5 witch give me working 4TB of
drive.

But I can’t create a partition larger than 2TB. Is there a way to
create a partition larger than 2TB?

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The abstraction of choice for me is to use LVM.

So… if the drive were, let’s say /dev/sdb…

pvcreate /dev/sdb

vgcreate myvg /dev/sdb

lvcreate -l 100%VG -n mylv myvg

and then put your filesystem on /dev/myvg/mylv

No partitions needed.

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I’m using the normal DELL PERC H700 RAID 5 sectors.
I read the link you sent but didn’t solve.

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I can’t use LVM.
I just need to create a partition larger than 2TB for /home
The problem I described is in the suse installation screen when creating partitions…

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I had to create the partitions using ubuntu live CD and choosing GPT format partitions.
Is there a way to do that using SLES 11 SP2 installation? I don’t think so.

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Work creating partitions with ubuntu live CD but didn’t work the SUSE linux.

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Have you checked the Documentation?
https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/

This is from the Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 Storage Administration Guide:

1.4. Large File Support in Linux¶

Originally, Linux supported a maximum file size of 2 GB (2[SUP]31[/SUP] bytes). Currently all of our standard file systems have LFS (large file support), which gives a maximum file size of 2[SUP]63[/SUP] bytes in theory. The numbers given in the following table assume that the file systems are using 4 KiB block size. When using different block sizes, the results are different, but 4 KiB reflects the most common standard.

Table 1.2. Maximum Sizes of Files and File Systems (On-Disk Format)¶
[TABLE=“class: grid, width: 500”]
[TR]
[TH] File System (4 KiB Block Size)[/TH]
[TH] Maximum File Size[/TH]
[TH] Maximum File System Size[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] BtrFS[/TD]
[TD] 16 EiB[/TD]
[TD] 16 EiB[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] Ext2 or Ext3[/TD]
[TD] 2 TiB[/TD]
[TD] 16 TiB[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] OCFS2 (available in the High Availability Extension)[/TD]
[TD] 4 PiB[/TD]
[TD] 4 PiB[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] ReiserFS v3[/TD]
[TD] 2 TiB[/TD]
[TD] 16 TiB[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] XFS[/TD]
[TD] 8 EiB[/TD]
[TD] 8 EiB[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] NFSv2 (client side)[/TD]
[TD] 2 GiB[/TD]
[TD] 8 EiB[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] NFSv3 (client side)[/TD]
[TD] 8 EiB[/TD]
[TD] 8 EiB[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

So, the short answer to your question is yes! I don’t know what you are doing that is causing this issue for you but perhaps you can find out from the documentation.