On Thursday 05 October 2006 12:58, chrism@imntv.com wrote:
John Newbigin wrote:
You can not have a DOS partition larger than 2Tb. parted will create one and tell the kernel about the size which works.... until you reboot and then the partition is 2Tb smaller than it should be because the partition table can not store the MSB of your partition size.
The solution is to use LVM or GPT partitions.
Right.
The procedure should look something like this:
/sbin/parted /dev/yourdevice (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/etherd/yourdevice: 0kB - 3001GB Disk label type: gpt (parted) mkpart primary 0 3001G (parted) quit
Now build the filesystem. I normally use:
mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/yourdevice
I'm sure you meant /dev/yourdevice1, assuming that the first gpt paratition of yourdevice is just appended a "1" like with old style dos partition (I've only done this with lvm whole disks).
/Peter