Max usable disk space (Les Mikesell)

[John Summerfied]

Jason Ragsdale wrote:
> I will be putting /boot and /var /tmp onto 2 80gb RAID1 mirrored  
> drives, the RAID5 Devices will be used for datastorage only.
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>> Note that you can't boot from partions over 2TB and I'm not
>> sure if grub knows enough to use them as the root partition
>> either.  With something that size, I think I'd put both
>> /boot and / on separate partitions, and perhaps leave spares
>> so that the next OS version could be loaded without destroying
>> the existing one to minimize chances of extended downtime
>> later.

For some systems, booting (kernel/initrd) from some kind of flash drive 
or card should work well.



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