[Techtalk] xfs repartitioning

Rudy Zijlstra rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Sat Oct 17 09:24:42 UTC 2015


On 17-10-15 07:17, A. Mani wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Meryll Larkin <mll at alwanza.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a new server that was formatted with a completely empty xfs 80T file
>> system (CentOS 6).
>>
>> The OS and boot partitions are on different HD completely.
> Good
>
>> I would like to reformat the 80T partition into 4 20T partitions - I need
>> guidance with this.  Anyone?
>>
>> It is OK to completely destroy the 80T xfs partition first, but I need to
>> end up with 4 approximately 20 T  xfs partitions.
>>
> Boot from system rescue cd
>
> delete 80T partition and create the new partitions and then format
> each partition and check
>
> use gparted
>
> use labels on the partitions too
>
> Nothing special
OK, it is always interesting to see when somebody forgets the obvious :)

The important thing to remember is that classical partition table as 
fdisk is using, cannot support these disks. For that reason GPT 
partition table needs to be used.

Thus the suggestion from Mani to use gparted :)

Cheers

Rudy




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