How to create a huge file system - 3-4TB?

[Raghu Ni]

Thaks for all your inputs.. We tried with parted and we are success in
createing two 1.7 TB partitions.

RaghuNi
On 11/9/06, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 at 12:14pm, Raghu Ni wrote
>
> > Here is the problem we are stuck with, when we use fdisk -l, we can see
> the
> > drive specs and its size as 3.4TB. But when we want to create two
> different
> > partitions of 1.7TB each, then we get the error "out of range" while
> > specifying cylinders.
> >
> > And if we go for one single partition of 3.4TB, mke2fs returns error
> when we
> > format the partition for ext3 file system and after some specific
> duration
> > it exits with a error "Inodes not found... " similar errors.
> >
> > Any help / suggesstions / ideas to get around this problem are highly
> > appreciated.
>
> fdisk can't handle devices larger than 2TiB.  If you really want to use
> partitions, use parted and create a gpt disklabel (the standard msdos
> won't work either).  Note that you won't be able to boot from this disk.
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
>
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