On Friday 18 August 2006 13:52, Will McDonald wrote: > On 18/08/06, Rajeev R Veedu <rajeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to create one raid volume of 3.3 TB (9550SX-8lp X WD5000YS > > – 8nos) and create a file system with ext3? (CentOs4.3 64bit) > > > > The maximum I am getting is 1.24tb and fdisk returns no more space > > available. But when I say fdisk /dev/sda it list full size of 3.3 TB. But > > I can not create partitions more than 1.24TB. > > I think there are limitations on the partition size fdisk can handle. > I believe the canonical way of creating larger partitions is with > "parted" but I can't say I've ever needed it. This is basically correct, but the limit is not really in fdisk but in the DOS partition table format. Two ways to go: 1) use parted and the gpt format 2) don't use paritions at all, just run lvm directly on it (pvcreate /dev/sda ..) /Peter
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