[TriLUG] 2tb Limit in ext3: can it be overcome?

[Byarlay, Wayne A.]

 Thank you all for your help...

After we patched 'er up, it "Just worked".

WAB

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Rick DeNatale
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:20 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] 2tb Limit in ext3: can it be overcome?

On 2/22/06, David W. Aquilina <david at starkindler.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:52:05PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> > Does anybody know how to overcome the 2TB partition limit (ext3)in 
> > RHE 4?
>
> Are you talking about a single partition greater than 2T, or a
filesystem greater than 2T?
>
> The latter should 'just work', however for the former you'll need to
use a GPT partition table instead of an MS-DOS partition table. Note
that unless you're on an Itanium, it's not possible to install to a
device using a GPT partition table. The release notes for RHEL4 U1
(http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/release-not
es/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U1-x86-en.html) have more information.
>

Magnus' suggestion of putting the filesystem on multiple PVs using LVM
makes a lot more sense than trying to have one LARGE partition, for
quite a few reasons.

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