Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:06:10 -0500 | Subject | Re: Devices/Partitions over 2TB | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:16:57PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > For LVM, the lvm2 package contains all the necessary tools. I know > Alasdair did some kernel fixes for lvm2 striping on >2TB partitions > recently, though, so older kernels might not work perfectly if you're > using stripes. > > To use genuine partitions > 2TB, though, you need alternative > partitioning; the GPT disk label supports that, and "parted" can create > and partition such disk labels. (Note that most x86 BIOSes can't boot > off them, though, so don't do this on your boot disk!)
Does the BIOS actually support partitions in general? I thought that was a problem for the code in the MBR. As long as your bootcode in the MBR supports whatever partition scheme you come up with, I can't see how it should be a problem, but maybe I am missing something. So what does GRUB/LILO support?
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