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From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 2GB limit
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:12:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4975B1A6.3090902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4975932A.6090902@bortal.de>

ml@bortal.de wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> i have a 32bit Linux box with a 3Ware Raidcontroller and 4x 1TB disks. 
> After installing Debian Etch i had to find out that i am running into 
> some limits.
> 
> Is there a way to use a Partition >2GB with 32Linux/LVM?

You mean 2TiB? Partitions greater than 2GiB (but less than 2TiB) 
should "just work".

If that's the case, you need to use a real partition table as the 
traditional MSDOS partitioning scheme is limited to 2TiB partitions or 
devices (it can't address disk locations beyond this point).

The GPT partition format is widely used on ia64 and does not have this 
limitation. It's supported by parted and most distribution installers 
(even for non-Itanium systems).

Regards,
Bryn.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-20 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20  9:02 [linux-lvm] 2GB limit ml
2009-01-20  9:18 ` Lupe Christoph
2009-01-20  9:34 ` Morten Torstensen
2009-01-20 11:12 ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]
2009-01-20 16:43   ` Larry Dickson
2009-01-20 16:56     ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-01-20 18:15       ` Larry Dickson

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