[CentOS] 2TB limit, weird mounting issues on reboot
chrism at imntv.com
chrism at imntv.com
Thu Oct 5 10:58:17 UTC 2006
John Newbigin wrote:
> You can not have a DOS partition larger than 2Tb. parted will create
> one and tell the kernel about the size which works.... until you
> reboot and then the partition is 2Tb smaller than it should be because
> the partition table can not store the MSB of your partition size.
>
> The solution is to use LVM or GPT partitions.
>
Right.
The procedure should look something like this:
/sbin/parted /dev/yourdevice
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/etherd/yourdevice: 0kB - 3001GB
Disk label type: gpt
(parted) mkpart primary 0 3001G
(parted) quit
Now build the filesystem. I normally use:
mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/yourdevice
(tap foot for a few minutes)
Now it should mount normally and you can uncomment out the entry for
that device in /etc/fstab.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
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