Vivek Khera wrote:
On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
fdisk and bsdlabels both have a limit: because of the way they
store the
data about the disk space they span, they can't store values that
reference space > 2 TB. In particular, every partition must start
at an
offset <= 2 TB, and cannot be larger than 2 TB.
Oh... one more note: if I don't use fdisk or paritions, I *can* newfs
the raw drive much bigger than 2Tb. I just don't want to do that for
a production box. :-)
Or you can use GPT, which uses 64-bit data structures and thus has an 8
ZB limit.
--
Darren Pilgrim
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