[CentOS] formatting a 3 terabyte partition
Phuoc Hong
phhong at ucsd.edu
Tue Jun 14 02:31:54 UTC 2005
pierre-francois,
thank you... trying it out right now....
thanks to bryan too...
Pierre-Francois Honore wrote:
> Phuoc Hong wrote:
>
>> hi.
>>
>> i'm hitting a wall each time i try to format a 3 terabyte partition.
>> i'm able to create the partition using parted but whenever i try to
>> create a 3 terabyte xfs or jfs or ext3 filesystem, the mounted
>> filesystem created is only 1 terabyte. i tried centos x86 and x86_64
>> 4.0 but i always hit a 1 terabyte limit. please help.
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> Inside parted, have you used "gpt" disklabel to break the 2T limit ?
> (you will loose the possibity to boot from this device see:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-02/msg00005.html).
>
> Using XFS on x86_64 4.0, I have been able to format and mount
> partiton up to 2T (8x250G):
> /dev/sda2 1.9T 195G 1.7T 11% /mnt/sda2
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