create single partition for 3.5 TB

[Fred Skrotzki]

One catch is that you can't boot from a GPT labeled device with either
grub or lilo. 

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Peter Kjellstrom
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 12:13 PM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: create single partition for 3.5 TB

On Friday 06 July 2007, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
> what you are attempting to do can't be done once you exceed the 2 tb 
> park.  Please search the archives for further information.  once you 
> create a partition exceeding 1.9999tb you can't use fdisk and a msdos 
> label (Which is what is needed to boot) you need to use GPT.

That or lvm directly on the device.

So, either create gpt label with parted or do pvcreate directly on the
device.

/Peter