On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Manish Kathuria <mkathuria at tuxtechnologies.co.in> wrote: > Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( > 2 TB) external storage devices using > GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the main OS resides on smaller hard > disks using MBR. In this scenario, what can be the largest possible > size of an ext3 partition (and filesystem) which can be created on the > storage array under CentOS 5.4 ? As a non-boot volume, we've got 9 SAS boxes of 15 1TB disks deployed as a single XFS filesystem, tied together with LVM. Total usable space: 110T BR Bent