From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 22:59:19 CET
Message-ID: <076d01c83077$9899b1f0$7031a8c0@exigengroup.com> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:59:19 -0800 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
Just curious:
- can I take > 2 TB disk, add it into LVM (without any partitions on it),
make logical group and logical volume and boot from it?
And btw, as I remember, lilo had boot blocks compiled into it, so it shopuld
be sensitive to the partitioning table at all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Silviu Marin-Caea" <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro>
To: <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:12 AM
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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