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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with large devices >2TB
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 13:10:06 -0700 (PDT)
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By author:    Jim Klimov <klimov@2ka.mipt.ru>
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> 
>   Since the new parted worked ok (older one didn't), we were happy
>   until we tried a reboot. During the device initialization and after
>   it the system only recognises the 6 or 7 partitions which start
>   before the 2000Gb limit:
> 

For a DOS partition table, there is no such thing as a partition
starting beyond 2 TB.  You need to use a GPT or other more
sophisticated partition table.

	-hpa