On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size. > > I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But > fdisk (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a partition > larger than 2TB. > > I've thought about creating three 1TB partitions then using LVM to > merge them into one, but that seems like over-kill. > > Has anybody got a suggestion?
If this isn't to be a boot disk, then try running pvcreate directly on the disk itself. LVM doesn't need a partition table if it's the only thing on the disk (it will basically act as its own partition table). I don't know, offhand what the limitations of LVM are but I'm willing to bet they're better than a DOS-style partition table.
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