From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765636AbXGQLjl (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:39:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757544AbXGQLjW (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:39:22 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.231]:24467 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756078AbXGQLjV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:39:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rb2+g5fqLFThBpgUEdEnyhjyrBjAHSz0+F7hkITbLuaJikETQ+IGeyvaTdDTxkBeIV5RrXJ0AyUXNO3n0nITaNFkvShRNirplLEC/l4+8e3Qf3TXUaJsm1I1zbmJy2cJnOjPP1cVdwNZNpplxZMEEMbj5xImJOsyRW+mXpXTLPs= Message-ID: <9a8748490707170439y5f9f2a54s98c02f31d9dae86@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:39:20 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Ingo Freund" Subject: Re: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <469CA5B4.5080106@e-dict.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4697760E.4070803@e-dict.net> <46980232.4080500@zytor.com> <469CA5B4.5080106@e-dict.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 17/07/07, Ingo Freund wrote: > On 14.07.2007 00:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote (please find the answer below the original text): > > Ingo Freund wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I've got a RAID5 (driver aacraid for an ICP9047MA) with four > >> 750GB hdds which provides a 2.25TB sized device. > >> None of the until now used tools will work with that device. > >> fdisk complains about missing cylinder count. > >> cfdisk misses the device size. > >> parted shows the right device size but only creates a partion > >> with 51GB. > >> What am I supposed to do to work with this device? > >> Which fs can handle it? > >> (CONFIG LARGE BLOCK is on) > >> We are talking about a 32Bit machine with vanilla kernel 2.6.21.5. > >> > > > > You have to use GPT partitions instead of DOS partitions (although you > > may have to leave your /boot as an DOS partitions, this is supposed to > > be possible as the two partitioning schemes are designed to coexist, but > > I don't think parted has support for it yet.) > > > > This is the solution (for use as a data container on a backup machine): > > parted /dev/sdb: > (parted) mklabel gpt > (parted) mkpart p 0 100% > (parted) quit > mkreiserfs /dev/sdb1 > ...and all seems to work. > Why not simply mkreiserfs /dev/sdb and forget about partitions entirely? -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html