Max usable disk space
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Dec 28 19:42:37 UTC 2005
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?
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