RE: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB

["Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>]

Put a file system on the entire device, stop trying to partition it.

The standard DOS partition table is of no use to you above 2TB.

Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Freund
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 8:55 AM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Regards - Ingo.
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