Hugh Brown wrote: > sfdisk's man page says "sfdisk doesn't understand the GUID Partition Table > (GPT) format and it is not designed for large partitions. In these cases > use the more advanced GNU parted(8)."
Indeed. "All best are off" when any non-GPT aware tool reads the "protective MBR." [1] Joshua Baker-LePain <wrote: > Note also that ext4 is limited to 16TB. You'll need to use XFS for a > filesystem larger than that. Indeed. The upstream tools only recently added support for >16TiB, and it's only more recently being added to Fedora 17 [2]. Correspondingly, the Scalable File System (XFS) has been an entitlement offering for several years now, and solves the problem nicely. References: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Legacy_MBR_.28LBA_0.29 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F17Ext4Above16T -- Bryan J Smith - Professional, Technical Annoyance http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
