Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

[Andi Kleen]

Christian Schmidt <lkml@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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