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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:20:05
Message-Id: 7573e9640511111615u6176d2c9v155064ea33d30611@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems... by kashani
1 On 11/11/05, kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > Bryan Whitehead wrote:
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4 > > I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares)
5 > >
6 > > I get this problem:
7 > > [root@dbay ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc
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9 > fdisk is known to have issues with large volumes. I don't recall offhand
10 > what the best tool is, but I believe partd and cfdisk would work better
11 > than fdisk. However they may some quirks of their own with that much space.
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13 The largest partition possible in a traditional PC partition table on
14 any disk with 512-byte sectors is 2TB.
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17 -Richard
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21 > kashani
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Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems... Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>