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
