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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:03:00 +0200
From: Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de>
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To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB
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Hi Andi,

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de> 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.

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose,
as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as
yet-another-point-of-failure). As LVM is on the large partition anyway
I'll just add the second partition for now, and change the system setup
with the next drive migration. Maybe linux even supports root-on-lvm
natively until then ;)

Regards,
Christian
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