Re: Devices/Partitions over 2TB

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:16:57PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> For LVM, the lvm2 package contains all the necessary tools.  I know
> Alasdair did some kernel fixes for lvm2 striping on >2TB partitions
> recently, though, so older kernels might not work perfectly if you're
> using stripes.
> 
> To use genuine partitions > 2TB, though, you need alternative
> partitioning; the GPT disk label supports that, and "parted" can create
> and partition such disk labels.  (Note that most x86 BIOSes can't boot
> off them, though, so don't do this on your boot disk!)

Does the BIOS actually support partitions in general?  I thought that
was a problem for the code in the MBR.  As long as your bootcode in the
MBR supports whatever partition scheme you come up with, I can't see how
it should be a problem, but maybe I am missing something.  So what does
GRUB/LILO support?

Len Sorensen