14 Feb
2008
14 Feb
'08
5:37 a.m.
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Peter Blajev wrote: ...
- fdisk creates partitions up to 2.1TB in size. Use "parted" instead.
The difference is not fdisk vs. parted. It's MSDOS-MBR vs. GPT (different types of partition tables). But since fdisk doesn't support GPT you'll have to use parted. Note though, parted fails equally bad if you use it with MSDOS-MBR...
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Your options are:
- If the storage is connected to a RAID controller you can use the
controller to create smaller logical partitions. Then combine them with LVM.
While this is possible it often causes performance problems (because linux now schedues IO independently on two devices which happen to be the same raid-set...).
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If you don't like parted you can still use fdisk to create a few 2TBpartitions and then use LVM.
I don't think that'll work, you can only have a MSDOS-MBR on a device smaller than 2T, it does not matter if your individual partitions are <2T.
/Peter K