[CentOS] 2TB partition limitation on X86_64 version??

Gary Greene ggreene at minervanetworks.com
Fri Jun 26 21:30:15 UTC 2009


On 6/26/09 12:40 PM, "Jim Perrin" <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Gary Greene<ggreene at minervanetworks.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>> fdisk has a 2TB limit, not the OS. Barry's information is correct.
>>> 
>> 
>> It's too bad RHEL hasn't moved to GNU fdisk instead of using the ancient one
>> from the linux-utils package. The GNU fdisk utility uses libparted to do
>> it's work.
> 
> 
> File a bug/RFE to support this move? It seems fdisk is easier for
> folks to use and the 'old-school' default.

GNU fdisk has the same user interface as the 'old-school default'. The
project also has a front-end that is much like cfdisk as well.

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