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.
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:07 -0700, 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.
What utility are you using? 1.1TB (1TiB) is LBA32 (signed) * 512 bytes/sector.
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:07 -0700, 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.
What utility are you using? 1.1TB (1TiB) is LBA32 (signed) * 512 bytes/sector.
And what storage array? Driver?
bryan,
using 3w_9xxx driver.... and formatting fs using mkfs.xfs partition...
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:07 -0700, 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.
What utility are you using? 1.1TB (1TiB) is LBA32 (signed) * 512 bytes/sector.
And what storage array? Driver?
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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 02:31 +0200, Pierre-Francois Honore wrote:
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
Hmmm, I didn't know GPT was an option other than on IA-64. Microsoft supports LDM in GPT for NT5.x (2000/XP/2003) as well. I'm so used to breaking up SAN and local disk volumes into less than 1TB.
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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
msdos partition tables can't use >2TB partitions, you need to create a seperate Itanium type (forget the name) partition. Parted has this capability.
However you will still need to have a seperate logical volume with an MSDOS partition table for booting - neither GRUB nor LILO can boot from the new style partitions yet.
BTW, This issue has been covered on the list before. Search my my email address.
Regards,
John
Phuoc Hong wrote:
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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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