Things I've found useful

If you need to create partitions on a disk (or raid volume) which is larger than 1Tb you will need to use parted and set the disk label to GPT. This is an example session creating 2 1Tb partitions on a 2Tb raid5 volume:

[root@sn-b03 parted]# parted /dev/sdb
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Using /dev/sdb
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sdb is 291775/255/63.
Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart primary 0 1048576
(parted) mkpart primary 1048577 2097152
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-2288754.000 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.017 -1048576.000  ext3
2     -1048575.000      0.000
(parted) quit
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
[root@sn-b03 parted]#