Re: fdisk - partition size limitation?

[danci agenda si]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, danci agenda si wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> does 'fdisk' have an implicit limitation in maximum size of a partition it 
> can create? Or is this a deeper problem, originating from 'msdos' 
> partition labels?
> 
> I have a 5TB disk storage, which is currently setup to present all that 
> space as one volume. I can make a filesystem using a whole disk 
> (/dev/sdc), but I prefer using partitions.
> 
> But it seems like there is some 32-bit issue with fdisk - I can't create 
> paritions larger then '145814' cylinders (which is 1171245312 blocks or 
> 63-2342490687 sectors).
> 
> If I use 'sector' units fdisk allows the maximum number 2147483647...
> 
> I'm sure some of you have storages larger than 2TB - how do you use them?

Forgot to mention - I use 64-bit OS version.

 D.