From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937851AbXGMW4t (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:56:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757514AbXGMW4k (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:56:40 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60201 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754123AbXGMW4k (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:56:40 -0400 Message-ID: <46980232.4080500@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:52:34 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Freund CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB References: <4697760E.4070803@e-dict.net> In-Reply-To: <4697760E.4070803@e-dict.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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