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SubjectRe: Devices/Partitions over 2TB
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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?

Len Sorensen
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