[CentOS] 64 bit hardware and filesystem size limit

[Cletus Murphy]

On 8/23/05, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 at 10:38am, Sean Staats wrote
> 
> > It appears to me that the 3Ware card is reporting the information
> > correctly, but fdisk is having the trouble.  Is this due to running
> > 32-bit software?  Do you think running on 64-bit hardware and 64-bit
> > CentOS will fix this problem?
> 
> No.  fdisk can't handle disks bigger than 2TiB.  You have to use parted.
> In addition, you can't use msdos (the default) disk labels on disks bigger
> than 2TiB -- you must use gpt disk labels.  This means that can't boot
> from a >2TiB disk, as neither grub nor lilo understand gpt disk labels.
> 
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University

Again - http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=11920

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