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Re: [suse-amd64] fdisking large volumes
- From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:59:41 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20050809175940.GI26249@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:54:53PM -0400, Joe Georger wrote:
> I am not sure what you mean below Andi.... I too have run into 2 TB
> filesystem limitations and would love to know something definitive on
> this. What partioning tool are you referring to? I typically use the
> partitioner in yast....
You can use 4TB if you assume all tools don't have signedness issues
with handling the 32bit sector number. I wouldn't bet on it,
Staying in the positive range and limiting to 2TB is much safer.
-Andi
> I am not sure what you mean below Andi.... I too have run into 2 TB
> filesystem limitations and would love to know something definitive on
> this. What partioning tool are you referring to? I typically use the
> partitioner in yast....
You can use 4TB if you assume all tools don't have signedness issues
with handling the 32bit sector number. I wouldn't bet on it,
Staying in the positive range and limiting to 2TB is much safer.
-Andi
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