large partition problem

[Markku Kolkka]

don fisher kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 24. 
joulukuuta 2005 08:00):
> I have a RAID 5 system that I am having trouble mounting. When
> I use fdisk to make the partition, it does not make one large
> enough. When I use sfdisk I get the 2249.9 GB, 2249900163072
> bytes partition expected.

The standard DOS partition table format doesn't work for 
partitions over 2TB. You need to use the new GPT partition table 
format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
You should use the parted program to set up the partitions (have 
a look at the sfdisk manpage).

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 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi