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Re: How To Recover From Creating >2TB ext3 Filesystem on MSDOS Partition Table?

From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 duke edu>
To: Jon Forrest <jlforrest berkeley edu>
Cc: ext3-users redhat com
Subject: Re: How To Recover From Creating >2TB ext3 Filesystem on MSDOS Partition Table?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:25:03 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 at 2:00pm, Jon Forrest wrote

Regarding #2, there are a number of places where very knowledgeable
people describe the danger in creating >2TB file systems on msdos
partition tables but I haven't seen an explanation of the fundemental
problem. I would love to learn this (I'm not doubting that it's true).

AIUI, msdos disk labels use a 32bit integer to describe the length of apartition. 2^32*512byte blocks=2TiB.


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

References:
- How To Recover From Creating >2TB ext3 Filesystem on MSDOS Partition Table?
  - From: Jon Forrest
- Re: How To Recover From Creating >2TB ext3 Filesystem on MSDOS Partition Table?
  - From: Ling C. Ho
- Re: How To Recover From Creating >2TB ext3 Filesystem on MSDOS Partition Table?
  - From: Jon Forrest

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