Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:52:10 -0600 (CST) | From | Adam Heath <> | Subject | Re: 3TB disk hassles |
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Neil Conway wrote:
> Howdy... > > After much banging of heads on walls, I am throwing in the towel and > asking the experts ;-) ... To cut a long story short: > > Is it possible to make a 3TB disk work properly in Linux? > > Our "disk" is 12x300GB in RAID5 (with 1 hot-spare) on a 3ware 9500-S12, > so it's actually 2.7TiB ish. It's also /dev/sda - i.e., the one and > only disk in the system. > > Problems are arising due to the 32-bit-ness of normal partition tables. > I can use parted to make a 2.7TB partition (sda4), and > /proc/partitions looks fine until a reboot, whereupon the top bits are > lost and the big partition looks like a 700GB partition instead of a > 2.7TB one; this is a bad thing ;-) > > I've had my hopes raised by GPT, but after more reading it appears this > doesn't work on vanilla x86 PCs. > > Tips gratefully received.
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