From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>
To: helmut@hullen.de
Cc: Helmut Hullen <Hullen@t-online.de>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drives with more than 2 TByte
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:23:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8B9A44.4030604@libero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BiSR8y$i1uB@helmut.hullen.de>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-24 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-24 16:43 drives with more than 2 TByte Helmut Hullen
2011-03-24 19:23 ` Goffredo Baroncelli [this message]
2011-03-24 19:41 ` Helmut Hullen
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