Install Fails on 16.8TB RAID

[ely_az]

I am trying to install Proxmox 3.3 on a 16.8TB RAID 10 array and the install fails with the error: mkfs.ext3 -m 0 -F /dev/pve/data failed with exit code 1 at /usr/bin/proxinstall line 177. Looking at the details it is trying to format my whole array with ext3 which has a 16TB size limit. Is there any way to configure the install to use a smaller portion of the disk? I plan on carving up the disk space with LV for use with the VMs anyway.

 

[brad_mssw]

I am trying to install Proxmox 3.3 on a 16.8TB RAID 10 array and the install fails with the error: mkfs.ext3 -m 0 -F /dev/pve/data failed with exit code 1 at /usr/bin/proxinstall line 177. Looking at the details it is trying to format my whole array with ext3 which has a 16TB size limit. Is there any way to configure the install to use a smaller portion of the disk? I plan on carving up the disk space with LV for use with the VMs anyway.

You should use the 'linux ext4' boot option, see https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation for more info.

 

[e100]

As Brad pointed out see https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation#Boot_options

Using LVM to store the virtual disks is a great choice on such a large disk.
Performing a disk check on such a large partition can take a considerable amount of time.
By storing the disks on LVM you can avoid this large delay when rebooting.