64 bit hardware and filesystem size limit

[jlb17 at duke.edu (Joshua Baker-LePain)]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 at 10:38am, Sean Staats wrote

> It appears to me that the 3Ware card is reporting the information
> correctly, but fdisk is having the trouble.  Is this due to running
> 32-bit software?  Do you think running on 64-bit hardware and 64-bit
> CentOS will fix this problem?

No.  fdisk can't handle disks bigger than 2TiB.  You have to use parted.  
In addition, you can't use msdos (the default) disk labels on disks bigger 
than 2TiB -- you must use gpt disk labels.  This means that can't boot 
from a >2TiB disk, as neither grub nor lilo understand gpt disk labels.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University