From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2007 - 03:18:17 CET
Message-ID: <050001c82be4$c7313d90$7031a8c0@exigengroup.com> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:18:17 -0800 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
Why do you whant to BOOT from this partition? Create /boot partition, 200MB,
and then make any partitions you want on the rest of the disk.
No one need boot partition > 2 TB, it is not just the case of anyonbe's
interest so you should not 4expect that it will be done in near (<= 5 years)
future.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Joffe" <rjoffe@yahoo.com>
To: <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
> The issue in my case is that I have/want a single partition on the server.
>
> Ron
>
>
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 15:31, Gordon Ross wrote:
>> That hack is only needed if you want your boot device to be a partition
>> greater than 2TB. If you boot off of a device which is less than 2TB,
>> then
>> you don't need this hack at all. All you need to do is use parted to
>> create
>> a GPT partition table on the >2TB device before using YaST.
>>
>> In my environment, I use the cheapest/smallest discs (mirrored) for the
>> O/S
>> and the data lives on the big, fast, expensive SAN.
>>
>> GTG
>>
>
> --
> Ron Joffe
> Siena Tech, Inc.
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> Chapel Hill, NC 27517
> (919) 928-0404
>
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