Hi
I have a system running rhel5 which is set to identify a couple of iSCSI disks of size 5TB each. I want to create a volume group using these and use the space via LVM.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Disk /dev/sda: 5398.5 GB, 5398593536000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 656341 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdb: 5398.5 GB, 5398593536000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 656341 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

I created linux lvm partition (8e) on them with default values.

When I create PV on them with the default values the size of the PVs are only 2TB each.

Question - How to use the 5TB space on each iscsi disk?

Thanks
Arun

I tried removing a pv and recreate it noticing the default values carefully while allocating size .. this is what I found while using fdisk on /dev/sda

Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-656341, default 1): 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-267349, default 267349): 656341
Value out of range.


When I enter the last cylinder number i.e 656341 , it says value out of range.

Please help.

Maybe I should use 'parted' instead of fdisk . But I have not used that before , and dont know how to create the partition with that and also how to mark the partition as Linux LVM -8e.
Some guidance would be much appreciated.

It is a limitation of fdisk and the way out is to use parted.
Steps are as below:

#parted /dev/sda
mklabel gpt
New disk label type? [msdos]? gpt
mkpart primary ext3 1 100%
quit

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