On 2/22/06, David W. Aquilina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:52:05PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: > > Does anybody know how to overcome the 2TB partition limit (ext3)in RHE > > 4? > > Are you talking about a single partition greater than 2T, or a filesystem > greater than 2T? > > The latter should 'just work', however for the former you'll need to use a > GPT partition table instead of an MS-DOS partition table. Note that unless > you're on an Itanium, it's not possible to install to a device using a GPT > partition table. The release notes for RHEL4 U1 > (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U1-x86-en.html) > have more information. >
Magnus' suggestion of putting the filesystem on multiple PVs using LVM makes a lot more sense than trying to have one LARGE partition, for quite a few reasons. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
