Maximum LVM size Q?

[John Summerfield]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I've stumbled through the man page, and I've read the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file 
> looking for clues and have come up pretty much as dumb as when I started.
> 
> I just bought a SATA controller & a 400GB deathstar, with the intention of 
> putting F8 on it, using about 250 megs for an ext3 boot partition, 20GB each 
> in ext3 for /home, /opt & /root, and the rest in the lvm2 filesystem.  That 
> will mean something over 300GB.
> 
> Is this beyond whatever size limitations the lvm2 filesystem can handle?

No.
ext3 tops at 8 terabytes or 16, depending on which version (and maybe 
depending on block size). lvm goes bigger, but I don't recall how much 
bigger. Big enough for ext4 I suspect.

ext3 addresses blocks, and its limit is what it can address with 32 bits.


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John

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