Re: Max usable disk space

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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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