RAID and Partition Size Limits?

Kall, Bruce A. kall at mayo.edu
Thu Jun 17 15:14:41 UTC 2004


I am setting up a (hardware) raid that is 3.5TB.  I would like to use 
this as one partition.  Is there a limit in Linux on hard drive partitions?

The system is a Promise Hardware raid that has 15 250GB hard drives in 
it set up as Raid5 connected with an Adaptec SCSI controller.  Promises 
interface acknowledges that is it set up as a 3.485TB RAID and I have 
one logical partition on the whole RAID.

When I run fdisk to partition it, it only lets me get up to 1.285TB.  Is 
this a limit of Linux (running kernel 2.6 in Fedora 2)?

Suggestions?

Bruce





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