We had a server which had 4 hard drivers made RAID10 using LSI hardware RAID card. The total size of hard driver was 4TB. I wanted to install Fedora 16 on it via graphical mode. I choose “Create Custom Layout” to assign partitions. After I assigned BIOS Boot, /boot, and swap partition, and I wanted to assigned the rest size to / partion, it prompted “Could not allocate requested partitions: requested size exceeds maximum allowed”.
I turned back, and pressed Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to text terminal,
# parted /dev/sda
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) quit
pressed Ctrl+Alt+F6 to switch to graphical terminal, choose “Create Custom Layout” to assign partitions again. Everything was ok.
Posted by: kezhong | January 31, 2012
[Solved]Could not allocate requested partitions: requested size exceeds maximum allowed
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Hello, thank you for this tip. It helped me solve my problem with CentOS 6.2 installation. I had 2x 1.5TB in RAID and it needed to be in GPT.
Thank you
By: CentOS Admin on February 9, 2012
at 10:21 am
Thank you very much for the tip for solving my problem with RedHat 6 when we are trying to create more than 4 partitions.
By: Anonymous on May 15, 2012
at 11:25 am
Works like a champ.
By: Anonymous on August 20, 2012
at 10:26 am
I tried doing what you advice and it worked until I rebooted after CentOS installation. The server cannot find the /boot. Need help
By: Anonymous on September 11, 2012
at 11:53 pm
I have no idea why this worked, but it did. Already parted the disk and labeled gpt. When I go to text mode and start parted it tells me the disk is gpt. mklabel again, overwrite disk, quit, back to gui mode and kaboom… I can create partitions to my heart’s content. The CTRL+ALT+F2 is a very nice little tool. Thanks for the tip.
By: Anonymous on June 14, 2013
at 2:05 pm
Great man!
It works nice!
Thank you so much!
By: Anonymous on March 3, 2014
at 9:31 am