[CentOS] formatting a 3 terabyte partition (addendum)

Phuoc Hong phhong at ucsd.edu
Mon Jun 13 23:43:37 UTC 2005


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:
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>>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.
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>What utility are you using?
>1.1TB (1TiB) is LBA32 (signed) * 512 bytes/sector.
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>And what storage array?  Driver?
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