From: Dr J Pelan (J.Pelan_at_gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 00:19:37 CET
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:19:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Dr J Pelan <J.Pelan@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0711052308180.14687@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] What is up with >2TB luns?
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Joe Georger 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?
As you have discovered a 2TB limit applies to msdos partitions. You can
use 'parted' to create a GPT label or just use the raw LUN without a
partition.
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