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

Filipe Brandenburger filbranden at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 22:20:58 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 17:30, Gary Greene<ggreene at minervanetworks.com> wrote:
> On 6/26/09 12:40 PM, "Jim Perrin" <jperrin at gmail.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.

Any chance to get it built and packaged for CentOS and made available
on one of the 3rd party repositories? RPMforge anyone? :-)

Cheers,
Filipe



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