Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 4 authors, 2022-11-27

Re: change UUID of RAID devcies

From: Reindl Harald <hidden>
Date: 2022-09-13 11:12:34


Am 13.09.22 um 12:39 schrieb Pascal Hambourg:
On 13/09/2022 at 12:28, Reindl Harald wrote:
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BTW: currently the machines are BIOS-boot - am i right that the 2 TB 
limitation only requires that the parts which are needed for booting 
are on the first 2 TB and i can use 4 TB SSD's on the two bigger 
machines?
Which 2 TB limitation ? EDD BIOS calls use 64-bit LBA and should not 
have any practical limitation unless the BIOS implementation is flawed.
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in that case i think i would need GPT partitioning and does GRUB2 
support booting from GPT-partitioned disks in BIOS-mode?
Yes, but it requires a "BIOS boot" partition for the core image (usually 
less than 100 kB, so 1 MB is plenty enough). Also some flawed BIOS 
require that a legacy partition entry in the protective MBR has the 
"boot" flag set
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html

"For example, you cannot create 3TB or 4TB partition size (RAID based) 
using the fdisk command. It will not allow you to create a partition 
that is greater than 2TB" makes me nervous

how to get a > 3 TB partition for /dev/md2

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and finally how would the command look for "Then with just two drives 
you change the raid to raid-1"?

the first two drives are ordered to start with 1 out of 4 machines ASAP 
given that the machine in front of me is running since 2011/06 365/24......
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