Max usable disk space
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Dec 28 19:51:00 UTC 2005
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:42:37PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:25:12PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> >> Jason Ragsdale wrote:
> >>
> >> >All,
> >> > I am looking to build a NSF server starting with:
> >> >4 x 300GB drives RAID5, and adding 4 more 500GB RAID5 drives later.
> >> >Is there a max filesystem size limit with fedora core 4? Or are there
> >> >any other options that may cause me issues later down the road?
> >> >Thanks in advance.
> >> >-Jason
> >> >
> >> I just found out that fdisk doesn't like raw devices > 2TB. Don't know
> >> of a way around that limitation, but that's the only one I can think of.
> >
> >That's a limitation of DOS style partition tables. Use a GPT partition
> >layout, and it should work. You may have to use parted rather than
> >fdisk to create them though.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> Okay, I'm down with that. Question is HOW do I do that?
>From a quick skim of the man page, 'mklabel gpt' is what you need.
I've not got a big disk to test this on though, so you're kinda on
your own from here on in ;-)
Dave
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