From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB
Date: 15 Jun 2007 16:37:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73d4zxs2q4.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46727E7C.8060102@digadd.de>
Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de> writes:
>
> Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning
> all by itself?
DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need
to use EFI partitions (e.g. using parted) or LVM. Since parted's
user interface is not good for much more than serving
as a bad example I would recommend LVM.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-15 11:56 Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB Christian Schmidt
2007-06-15 14:37 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-15 14:03 ` Christian Schmidt
2007-06-15 16:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-16 5:38 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-06-16 6:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-16 7:55 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
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