From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 23:02:02 CET
Message-ID: <077201c83077$f947e8a0$7031a8c0@exigengroup.com> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:02:02 -0800 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
Some controllers don't support logical disks/volumes inside of a physical
disk (logical disk is N * Physical disk on such controllers). Good SAN
systems support it, but many embedded controllers does not.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Silviu Marin-Caea" <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro>
To: <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:26 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
> On Wednesday 21 November 2007 04:18:17 am Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If he has a large volume and wants to define a partition > 2 TB, then the
> partition table has to be GPT. And that is even if the boot partition is
> 20
> MB.
>
> Alternatively, Ron, you could do this:
>
> 1. Define in your RAID controller a small volume, like 50 MB. This will
> be /boot.
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