partitioning 4K 3 TB USB hd for 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10

[CJ Tres]

On 03/06/2012 03:11 PM, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:

>
> On my at home media server (which doubles also as my mixing console and
> DAW when I'm working on compositions) I have abandoned attempts to have
> RAID1 boot drives > 2TB with GPT. I have decided to use my 2TB drives
> with MBR for boot/swap/root/home partitions in a RAID1 setup. And then
> use my 3TB drives with GPT for a massive RADI6 array for everything
> else. I set the RAID1 pair up through the alternate installer. Then
> setup the RAID6 array using Disk Utility. Started with 4*3TB and will be
> adding in more drives later this week for 7 total.
>
> Good luck on this project of yours. I'd like to see it work so I can
> learn how to do it myself. I cut my losses and decided to not spend any
> more time on this for now. Maybe in a couple of months I will come back
> to this on a spare machine and hack at it until a RAID1 boot pair can be
> done as GPT using 3TB or 4TB drives. I ran out of patience and the time
> to continue faffing about with it. YMMV.

Good to know I'm not alone.
I'll keep playing with it for a bit longer but I'll probably end up 
using the big guy for data and put the OS on a smaller drive, on the 
other hand, maybe I'll get lucky.

BTW - I'm liking the first two tracks - Systems Theory - interesting stuff!