Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?

From: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviu_marin-caea_at_fieldinsights.ro)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2007 - 11:12:57 CET


From: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:12:57 +0200
Message-Id: <200711221212.57284.silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 04:46:38 pm Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Am Mi, 21.11.2007, 15:10, schrieb Joe Georger:
> > If the *device* he wants to boot from is > 2 TB you cannot use a dos
> > partition label to create a smaller root partition. If you want to
> > partition a > 2 TB device you have to use GPT labels, which appear to be
> > problematic to boot from.
>
> Yeah, that's a problem then.
> He should really boot from something else ;-)
>
> Even if you get it working, you never know if a kernel-update ruins your
> setup. ("We told you so").

Not in this case. Not even a grub update will ruin it, because grub is not
installed as a package, it's compiled.

If you get it to boot, it will work forever, and you can use the system as you
normally would.

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