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From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>
Subject: Re: drives with more than 2 TByte
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:23:48 +0100
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Cc: Helmut Hullen <Hullen@t-online.de>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
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On 03/24/2011 05:43 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, linux-btrfs,
> 
> what about disks with more than 2 TByte? Other filesystems (?) need GPT.

The filesystems don't care about the partition system. The 2TB limits is
related to the maximum partition size. Of course a filesystem cannot be
greater the partition where it is allocated.
> 
> When I use
> 
>    mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdc
> 
> (p.e. with drive sdc), does that work without problems with btrfs?

It should. BTW, why you dont' use a GPT partition table ?
> 
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
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