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Subject: RAID and Partition Size Limits?

From: "Kall, Bruce A." <kall@xxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:14:41 -0500

Reply-to: "Kall, Bruce A." <kall@xxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

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I am setting up a (hardware) raid that is 3.5TB. I would like to use this as one partition. Is there a limit in Linux on hard drive partitions?

The system is a Promise Hardware raid that has 15 250GB hard drives in it set up as Raid5 connected with an Adaptec SCSI controller. Promises interface acknowledges that is it set up as a 3.485TB RAID and I have one logical partition on the whole RAID.

When I run fdisk to partition it, it only lets me get up to 1.285TB. Is this a limit of Linux (running kernel 2.6 in Fedora 2)?

Suggestions?

Bruce