[OpenSUSE 10.3] 4 TB partition issues

noir911 · 06-17-2008, 08:51 PM

I have a 4TB mirrored disk that I want to partition in 2TB for /var
and 1.7 TB for /usr and the rest of the disk would be /

I can create a 2TB (1.9TB) partition fine but as soon as I try to create
another partition even 1.1TB I get error: "The used disk label msdos does not support partitions above the sizle of 2.0TB. Therefore the cylinder value must be below xxxxxx". I tried XFS and EXT3 filesystem with no luck.

Any help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks.

stefan_nicolau · 06-19-2008, 06:03 AM

Try downloading and using the newest version of parted. People on this thread ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=716793&page=2 ) report that it fixed the issue for them.

colucix · 06-19-2008, 06:03 AM

By chance I was just reading about the > 2Tb support and found an HOWTO here. It uses parted with label gpt. Hope this helps.