Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Tue, 10 May 2005 23:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quail.cita.utoronto.ca (quail.cita.utoronto.ca [128.100.76.6]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id j4B6TkOv016128 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 23:29:46 -0700 Received: from cita.utoronto.ca (lemming.cita.utoronto.ca [128.100.76.53]) by quail.cita.utoronto.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4B6T20Z024070; Wed, 11 May 2005 02:29:02 -0400 Received: from lemming.cita.utoronto.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cita.utoronto.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4B6T27e003602; Wed, 11 May 2005 02:29:02 -0400 Received: (from rjh@localhost) by lemming.cita.utoronto.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4B6T1Kt003601; Wed, 11 May 2005 02:29:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 02:29:01 -0400 From: Robin Humble To: Leon Vismer Cc: Dave Chinner , naude@mail.picturenet.co.za, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS on 2.4 Tib raid Message-ID: <20050511062901.GB3430@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca> References: <200505092210.25667.lvismer@picturenet.co.za> <1115712231.42806ae75b4d1@picturenet.co.za> <20050511084450.A91712@melbourne.sgi.com> <200505110727.34199.lvismer@picturenet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505110727.34199.lvismer@picturenet.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-archive-position: 5184 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: rjh@cita.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 605 Lines: 20 On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 07:27:34AM +0200, Leon Vismer wrote: >The reason we did not originally create a partition is that the fdisk utils >could not address the 2.4 Tib device. It returned a size of 200Mb or >something similar. it's a limitation of the partition table format. use parted to create a EFI aka ia64 aka GPT partition table. eg. parted /dev/sda (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) mkpart primary 0 2384080 ... (parted) quit your kernel will need the 'advanced' partition table support too, but that's commonly switched on in distro kernels so shouldn't be a problem. cheers, robin