Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756799AbXFONls (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:41:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754969AbXFONlj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:41:39 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48069 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754781AbXFONli (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:41:38 -0400 To: Christian Schmidt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB References: <46727E7C.8060102@digadd.de> From: Andi Kleen Date: 15 Jun 2007 16:37:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <46727E7C.8060102@digadd.de> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 11 Christian Schmidt writes: > > Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning > all by itself? DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need to use EFI partitions (e.g. using parted) or LVM. Since parted's user interface is not good for much more than serving as a bad example I would recommend LVM. -Andi - 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/