 | | | fdisk - partition size limitation? | fdisk - partition size limitation? 2006-01-12 - By Jussi Silvennoinen
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> does 'fdisk' have an implicit limitation in maximum size of a partition it
> can create? Or is this a deeper problem, originating from 'msdos'
> partition labels?
>
> I have a 5TB disk storage, which is currently setup to present all that
> space as one volume. I can make a filesystem using a whole disk
> (/dev/sdc), but I prefer using partitions.
>
> But it seems like there is some 32-bit issue with fdisk - I can't create
> paritions larger then '145814' cylinders (which is 1171245312 blocks or
> 63-2342490687 sectors).
>
> If I use 'sector' units fdisk allows the maximum number 2147483647...
>
> I'm sure some of you have storages larger than 2TB - how do you use them?
You don't, not on taroon. 2TB is the supported maximum after U6. Even with
unsupported tricks, you can't go beyond 2TB's.
Nahant (RHEL4) will do over 2TB's with parted and gpt-partition tables.
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Jussi
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