Trying to mount 13 Tb disk on RedHat system.

[Eugene Vilensky]

> If fdisk, mkfs and df are only going to recognize 2TB partitions and you are
> going to use LVM to create a 13TB logical volume out of the smaller 2TB
> partitions then you'll need to create 7 2TB partitions and add them all to
> the system as LVM volumes in the same volume group. You should then be able
> to create your 13TB volume.
>
> Hope that helps.

Why do they not just use pvcreate on the entire device instead of
partitioning it at all?