I forgot to mention that the OS itself will sit on a separate disk of its
own. Only the backup-space will be on the GPT 6TB-raid array. I think this
will take care of the problem of CentOS not installing on a GPT-partition.

-- 
/Sorin


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se]
>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:39 PM
>To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support'
>Subject: [BackupPC-users] OT: New backup server with 6TB disk space
>
>Hi all,
>
>While this question is not strictly BackupPC, I think the most knowledge
>regarding backup-systems are available here. Please bear with me, or
>send me off. 8-)
>
>I'm planning to build a new backup server with 6x 1TB disks in a
>software raid-0 fashion á la my old 1,5TB-system, only bigger and faster.
>       Since I'd like to have those six TB's as one big partition
>for simplicities sake, apparantely I need to use something called GPT disks
>and create the partitions using parted according to Google.
>
>GPT disks I've never used before and parted I believe is terminal
>equivalent of gparted, which I've used before.
>
>Are there any gotchas' from BackupPC's, or from the OS's (CentOS 5.5
>x64), point of view I should be aware of in your opinion?
>
>Thanks for any hints.

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