From: Joseph Marton (jmmarton_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 01:43:45 CET
Message-ID: <859ece290711051643q53521988x6817c25646bdfe84@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:43:45 -0600 From: "Joseph Marton" <jmmarton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] What is up with >2TB luns?
Linux in general as issues with partitions > 2TB though I believe
parted has ways of getting around this. But get ready for potential
file corruption. Your best bet is to use LVM and put together
multiple 2TB chunks until you have the total volume size that you
need.
Joe
On 10/30/07, Joe Georger <jgeorger@ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> SLES10 SP1 x86_64 - I have a 10 TB raid unit, formatted as a single
> volume. When I try to create a filesystem on it, Yast is giving me an
> error message that the msdos disk label can only support 256K cylinders
> (I need ~1.3M) which ends up being 2 TB. Are we not beyond this
> already? Single disks will probably grow beyond 2TB in the next 2
> years.... Is there any way around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
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