Put a file system on the entire device, stop trying to partition it. The standard DOS partition table is of no use to you above 2TB.
Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ingo Freund > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 8:55 AM > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: howto create partitions bigger than 2TB > > Hi > > I've got a RAID5 (driver aacraid for an ICP9047MA) with four > 750GB hdds which provides a 2.25TB sized device. > None of the until now used tools will work with that device. > fdisk complains about missing cylinder count. > cfdisk misses the device size. > parted shows the right device size but only creates a partion > with 51GB. > What am I supposed to do to work with this device? > Which fs can handle it? > (CONFIG LARGE BLOCK is on) > We are talking about a 32Bit machine with vanilla kernel 2.6.21.5. > > Thanks in advance, > Regards - Ingo. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
