From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262065AbULPW0C (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:26:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262058AbULPWZL (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:25:11 -0500 Received: from pc7.prs.nunet.net ([199.249.167.77]:24327 "HELO patternassociates.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262046AbULPWVW (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:21:22 -0500 Date: 16 Dec 2004 22:21:21 -0000 Message-ID: <20041216222121.30098.qmail@patternassociates.com> From: "Rico Tudor" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Neil, I have a ~2TB ext2 FS on 3Ware RAID5, and simply dispense with partitioning. If you use LILO and it complains, arrange for /boot/* and your kernel image to have low i-numbers: this will keep the blocks numbers in a tradition range. Done!