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From: Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:03:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46729C14.5000809@digadd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73d4zxs2q4.fsf@bingen.suse.de>

Hi Andi,

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de> writes:
>> Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning
>> all by itself?
> 
> DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need
> to use EFI partitions (e.g. using parted) or LVM. Since parted's
> user interface is not good for much more than serving
> as a bad example I would recommend LVM.

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose,
as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as
yet-another-point-of-failure). As LVM is on the large partition anyway
I'll just add the second partition for now, and change the system setup
with the next drive migration. Maybe linux even supports root-on-lvm
natively until then ;)

Regards,
Christian

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-15 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-15 11:56 Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB Christian Schmidt
2007-06-15 14:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 14:03   ` Christian Schmidt [this message]
2007-06-15 16:25     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-16  5:38       ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-06-16  6:46         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-16  7:55           ` Alexander E. Patrakov

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