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Old 05-18-2006, 09:26 AM   #1
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how do I get around the 2TB limit on disk devices?


I've got a 4TB raid array which is showing up as follows:
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8    16 2147483647 sdb
8    32 2147483647 sdc
8    48   99470337 sdd
How do I get the kernel to see this as 1 large volume?
 
Old 05-19-2006, 01:54 AM   #2
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http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...12.2/0958.html

That's only a per-volume limit.
Have you tried combining the volumes in RAID0 or LVM?
 
Old 05-19-2006, 04:18 AM   #3
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I've got in working by rebuilding it after disabling auto-carving. Now I've just to find out how to partition 4394437632 sdb since fdisk doesn't work.
 
Old 06-13-2006, 10:07 PM   #4
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Is anyone successfully using a single > 2TB fs?

edit: finally found the info...

you have to use parted & create a GPT partition....

> parted
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart primary 0 3490000
(parted) quit

and you'll have a 3.49TB partition (actually about 3.2TB with reiserfs)

Last edited by BrianK; 06-13-2006 at 10:20 PM.
 
Old 06-17-2006, 06:00 PM   #5
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replied in private before seeing this, yes this is how I did it as well.
 
  


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