Re: Max usable disk space

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On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:42:37PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
 > 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?

>From a quick skim of the man page, 'mklabel gpt' is what you need.
I've not got a big disk to test this on though, so you're kinda on
your own from here on in ;-)

		Dave


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