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So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good? |
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 11/11/05, kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Bryan Whitehead wrote: |
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>>> I need a big partition, and have a 14TB raid5 (with hot spares) |
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>>> I get this problem: |
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>>> [root@dbay ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc |
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>> fdisk is known to have issues with large volumes. I don't recall offhand |
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>> what the best tool is, but I believe partd and cfdisk would work better |
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>> than fdisk. However they may some quirks of their own with that much space. |
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> The largest partition possible in a traditional PC partition table on |
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> any disk with 512-byte sectors is 2TB. |
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> -Richard |
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>> kashani |
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Bryan Whitehead |
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Email:driver@×××××××××.net |
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