[CentOS] FW: FDISK Help please in Centos 4.3

Fri Aug 18 11:52:15 UTC 2006
Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>

On 18/08/06, Rajeev R Veedu <rajeev at cracknell.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to create one raid volume of 3.3 TB (9550SX-8lp X WD5000YS –
> 8nos) and create a file system with ext3? (CentOs4.3 64bit)
>
> The maximum I am getting is 1.24tb and fdisk returns no more space
> available. But when I say fdisk /dev/sda it list full size of 3.3 TB. But I
> can not create partitions more than 1.24TB.

I think there are limitations on the partition size fdisk can handle.
I believe the canonical way of creating larger partitions is with
"parted" but I can't say I've ever needed it.

Will.