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 at 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 -- Pierre-Francois Honore -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pfhonore.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 401 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050614/82f92dc8/attachment-0004.vcf> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 4017 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050614/82f92dc8/attachment-0004.bin>