From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760573AbXGMNKa (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:10:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755077AbXGMNKX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:10:23 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.36]:37542 "EHLO mail-gw3.adaptec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754639AbXGMNKX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:10:23 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:10:19 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4697760E.4070803@e-dict.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB Thread-Index: AcfFTWly1DinwtC9RPiIMX/iEnD1ywAAaEhg From: "Salyzyn, Mark" To: "Ingo Freund" , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >