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Joseph L. Casale RE: [CentOS] formatting large volume
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>I'm not really sure what the difference would
>be having the physical extent size as 64 MB versions 4 MB.

It's the smallest allocatable size of any PV you can give to an LV.
Think of it like Allocation Unit Size. Also as pointed out above some
limitations arise in different versions of LVM. RH defaults to 32M I
believe...
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Craig White I just got a new server with a Dell MD-1000 SAS unit and 6-750 gigabyte drives which are now...
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Joseph L. Casale fdisk can't do GPT which is what you need for partitions larger than 2tb, so you use parted w/ gpt....
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Ross Walker Just pvcreate the whole disk and forgo partitioning it. Then create a vg out of it and start...
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Joseph L. Casale Hey Ross, I thought it was best practice to create an LVM partition such that the disk could be...
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Miskell, Craig I'm not Ross, but I'll chime in: I heartily recommend creating an LVM pa= rtition rather than using...
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Ross Walker Well if you mean recognizable by other OS's then does it matter if the other OS can't see the disk...
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Craig White OK - makes sense but I am a bit confused here. I have done the pgcreate and tested lvcreate but...
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Stephen Harris The man page for "vgcreate" says "there is a limit of 65534 extents in each logical volume" but...
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Craig White SNIP... OK - well, I can delete the vg and the lv that I created and just consider them as...
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Joseph L. Casale It's the smallest allocatable size of any PV you can give to an LV. Think of it like Allocation...
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Stephen Harris Were you trying to specify a label? If so, use the -L option, not -l Were you trying to specify a...
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Craig White duh...thanks :::blush::: too many man pages ;-) Thanks Craig
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