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 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 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >