msdos partition tables can't use >2TB partitions, you need to create a
seperate Itanium type (forget the name) partition. Parted has this
capability.
However you will still need to have a seperate logical volume with an
MSDOS partition table for booting - neither GRUB nor LILO can boot from
the new style partitions yet.
BTW, This issue has been covered on the list before. Search my my email
address.
Regards,
John
Phuoc Hong wrote:
> pierre-francois,
>
> thank you... trying it out right now....
>
> thanks to bryan too...
>
> Pierre-Francois Honore wrote:
>
>> Phuoc Hong wrote:
>>
>>> hi.
>>>
>>> i'm hitting a wall each time i try to format a 3 terabyte partition.
>>> i'm able to create the partition using parted but whenever i try to
>>> create a 3 terabyte xfs or jfs or ext3 filesystem, the mounted
>>> filesystem created is only 1 terabyte. i tried centos x86 and x86_64
>>> 4.0 but i always hit a 1 terabyte limit. please help.
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>>
>> Inside parted, have you used "gpt" disklabel to break the 2T limit ?
>> (you will loose the possibity to boot from this device see:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-02/msg00005.html).
>>
>> Using XFS on x86_64 4.0, I have been able to format and mount
>> partiton up to 2T (8x250G):
>> /dev/sda2 1.9T 195G 1.7T 11% /mnt/sda2
>>
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