large disks in linux?

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:09:55PM -0500, Jerry Yu wrote:
>    When you used parted, did you use GPT type partition table, or the default
>    FAT table?  What linux distro version you are using?
> 
>    Personally, I'd do / /boot/  on regular ext3, with a huge 4.9T /big. This
>    way, you won't have the boot problem, but just a matter of setting up a
>    partition/fs.

So, a boot disk that large is really problematic.  BIOS can't see it
of course, meaning neither can grub.  What you need is a smallish
physical/logical drive (e.g. between 4GB and 1TB) with an msdos
partition table and file systems.  Then you want a second logical
drive that's 4.9TB that you can put GPT on, and/or use LVM on, and/or
just make one big flat file system on /dev/sdb.  That way you avoid
all the boot-time problems associated with really large volumes.

Thanks,
Matt

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