From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762485AbXGQLTn (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:19:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755181AbXGQLTg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:19:36 -0400 Received: from mx02.hansenet.de ([213.191.73.26]:34597 "EHLO webmail.hansenet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755032AbXGQLTf (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:19:35 -0400 Message-ID: <469CA5B4.5080106@e-dict.net> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:19:16 +0200 From: Ingo Freund User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB References: <4697760E.4070803@e-dict.net> <46980232.4080500@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <46980232.4080500@zytor.com> 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 On 14.07.2007 00:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote (please find the answer below the original text): > 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.) > This is the solution (for use as a data container on a backup machine): parted /dev/sdb: (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) mkpart p 0 100% (parted) quit mkreiserfs /dev/sdb1 ...and all seems to work. Thank you all very much for your hints. Regards - Ingo.