LinuxQuestions.org
Help answer threads with 0 replies.
Home Forums Tutorials Articles Register
Go Back   LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Enterprise Linux Forums > Linux - Enterprise
User Name
Password
Linux - Enterprise This forum is for all items relating to using Linux in the Enterprise.

Notices


Reply
  Search this Thread
Old 09-06-2007, 06:10 AM   #1
jeesun
Member
 
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: Australia
Distribution: RedHat Enterprise
Posts: 82

Rep: Reputation: 15
Partition Hard disk more than 2 TB


Hi

I have 2.3 TB storage in myserver (DAS). and I need to partition it in different segment.How can i Partition like this type of huge amount in RHEL AS 5
 
Old 09-07-2007, 09:18 PM   #2
Simon Bridge
LQ Guru
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Waiheke NZ
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9,211

Rep: Reputation: 198Reputation: 198
1. use a filesystem that supports large partition sizes
2. break it into smaller partitions
3. use LVM

But it isn't really clear what you want to do.
 
Old 09-08-2007, 08:01 AM   #3
jeesun
Member
 
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: Australia
Distribution: RedHat Enterprise
Posts: 82

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 15
I cannot create partition this type of large space with fdisk. When I want to partition with this type of space using fdisk, it creates only 400GB. thats it.
 
Old 09-08-2007, 08:20 AM   #4
Simon Bridge
LQ Guru
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Waiheke NZ
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9,211

Rep: Reputation: 198Reputation: 198
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

ext3 can go as high as 32TiB, but you have to specify a larger block size.
ext4 will go as high as a EiB!
reiserfs will go as high as 16TiB
XFS will go to 8EiB and the files can be that big too!

You have to create the partition, then create a filesystem on the partition.
fdisk is supposed to handle as high as 2TiB, but no higher. If you really want to use
partitions, use "parted" and create a gpt disklabel (the standard msdos
won't work either). Note that you won't be able to boot from this disk.

Otherwise, you could try just making the filesystem directly on the whole
device (e.g. mke2fs /dev/sda).
 
  


Reply



Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Copy files from partition to partition too slow, SATA hard disk.What should I do£¿ Ryanlee SUSE / openSUSE 20 10-31-2005 07:30 AM
Reclaim disk partition from hard disk installation EStester Linux - Enterprise 2 03-09-2005 11:46 AM
Reclaim disk partition from hard disk installation EStester Linux - General 1 03-09-2005 11:25 AM
In need of hard disk partition editor linux_newbie_gu Linux - Software 3 12-23-2004 02:26 AM
Hard Disk Partition nature_priyan Linux - Newbie 4 06-16-2004 04:19 PM

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Enterprise Linux Forums > Linux - Enterprise

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:19 AM.

Main Menu
Advertisement
My LQ
Write for LQ
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute content, let us know.
Main Menu
Syndicate
RSS1  Latest Threads
RSS1  LQ News
Twitter: @linuxquestions
Open Source Consulting | Domain Registration