large disks in linux?

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:58:30PM -0800, nate wrote:
>    I figured I'd respond in this one.  I currently have one massive virtual
>    disk on my array.  I've now tried creating a 4gig partition on it, the
>    install sort of went fine but it couldn't find any file system type on
>    boot.  I wasn't mounting the rest of the disk space on boot, I figured I'd
>    just do that by hand the first boot.  So it kernel paniced again.
>    So I booted up up off my gentoo install cd and went to mount the 4 gig
>    partition and I get the following error: VFS: CCan't find ext3 filesystem
>    on dev sda1 the other error I get is mount: you must specify the
>    filesystem type.
>    It's almost as if formatting it as ext3 didn't do anything.
>    Also to create the partitions I'm using the parted utility. setting it to
>    gpt and using the mkpart command within to create the first partition at 0
>    - 4096, the second one 4097 to 5245000 and the third (swap) from 5245001
>    to 4257000

Grub doesn't understand GPT, it only understands msdos.  Patches to
add this feature would be welcome by the grub developers I'm told.  So
you really can't put GPT on your boot disk and expect it to work, you
have to use msdos.  msdos partitions, of course, have a 2TB limit.
Hence the suggestion for multiple logical drives, one smallish one for
booting, another insane sized one for data, using GPT there if you so
desire.

Thanks,
Matt

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