Creating an md with 3TB drives.
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From: Marcin M. Jessa <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-28 08:05:19
Hi guys. I have two 3TB drives and I want to set them up as RAID0. The problem is I can't use all of the space on them. I only get 4TB of the 6 in total. What I tried was: # parted /dev/sde GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/sde Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel gpt Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sde will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? Yes/No? yes (parted) mkpart primary 0 -0 Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. Ignore/Cancel? ignore (parted) print Model: ATA Hitachi HDS72303 (scsi) Disk /dev/sde: 3001GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 3001GB 3001GB primary (parted) quit Then I used fdisk to change the partition type to Linux raid auto Finally I ran mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 but mdadm -QD /dev/md2 shows 2TBs are gone. Array Size : 4294964224 (4096.00 GiB 4398.04 GB) What to do in this case? How can I a 6TB raid array ? -- Marcin M. Jessa