From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Freund <linux-kernel-news@e-dict.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:52:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46980232.4080500@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4697760E.4070803@e-dict.net>
Ingo Freund wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got a RAID5 (driver aacraid for an ICP9047MA) with four
> 750GB hdds which provides a 2.25TB sized device.
> None of the until now used tools will work with that device.
> fdisk complains about missing cylinder count.
> cfdisk misses the device size.
> parted shows the right device size but only creates a partion
> with 51GB.
> What am I supposed to do to work with this device?
> Which fs can handle it?
> (CONFIG LARGE BLOCK is on)
> We are talking about a 32Bit machine with vanilla kernel 2.6.21.5.
>
You have to use GPT partitions instead of DOS partitions (although you
may have to leave your /boot as an DOS partitions, this is supposed to
be possible as the two partitioning schemes are designed to coexist, but
I don't think parted has support for it yet.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-13 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-13 12:54 howto create partitions bigger than 2TB Ingo Freund
2007-07-13 13:10 ` Salyzyn, Mark
2007-07-13 14:59 ` Mark Lord
2007-07-13 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-17 11:19 ` Ingo Freund
2007-07-17 11:39 ` Jesper Juhl
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