On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 at 11:56am, Ross S. W. Walker wrote > You can't use an MBR partition table on a volume that large there is a > max 2TB disk size limit and 2TB partition size limit for MBR, so you > must use GPT. For completeness' sake, MBR=master boot record, not a partition table. The standard type of partition table is msdos. And, yes, it cannot handle devices >2TiB. > There is a real lack of reliable and easy GPT tools under Linux, parted > can read GPT partition tables, but I do not believe it can create them > AFAIK. Incorrect. parted has no issue creating and managing gpt disklabels. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF