Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:25:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB |
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On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote: >Hi Andi, > >Andi Kleen wrote: >> Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de> 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.
parted's interface is no worse than that of [sfc]disk. Anyway...
>Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose, >as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as >yet-another-point-of-failure). As LVM is on the large partition anyway >I'll just add the second partition for now, and change the system setup >with the next drive migration. Maybe linux even supports root-on-lvm >natively until then ;)
Uh, it does. By means of initrd/ramfs image. Blame your distro if it still can't do root-on-LVM, there is at least one who can.
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