Re: advice when creating 2 TB file system ?

["Andrew A. Neuschwander" <andrew ntsg umt edu>]

If you have a piece of hardware with over 2TB on  a single block  
device (i.e. id or lun), you'll have to use parted and create a gpt  
partition table instead of creating an msdos partition table with  
fdisk. I've had to do this when my hardware is over 2TB. You don't  
need to do this for devices under 2TB which will be lvm'ed or raided  
together to make a logical volume over 2TB.

Note that the i386/x86_64 installer for rhel will not make gpt  
partion tables, so you have to do it after install. I've read that  
the ia64 installer uses gpt instead of msdos by default.

-Andrew
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Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group
College of Forestry and Conservation
The University of Montana
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On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:06 PM, FM wrote:


> Hello ,
> is there some special tuning (during mke2fs for ex) when create 1  
> partition with 2 Tb of free space ?
>
> Thanks !
>
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