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List:       busybox
Subject:    FYI: The >2TB problem
From:       walter harms <wharms () bfs ! de>
Date:       2009-08-30 19:28:08
Message-ID: 4A9AD2C8.3090309 () bfs ! de
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walter harms schrieb:
> 
> Matthew Stoltenberg schrieb:
>>>>> and sfdisk is a very nice tool to create partitions from scripts. beats
>>>>> parted.
>> agreed...  sfdisk is nice for scripted installs...  I would be willing
>> to do a bit of testing for this.
>>
>>>> our fdisk should be massaged into an sfdisk. Would be handy IMHO,
>>>> agreed.
>>> interessting would be a tools that can handle disk >2TB. fdisk (and friends) cannot
>>> if i am informed correctly. This will make BB interessting for SAN.
>> really?  I think it wouldn't be that hard to use long long for pointers...
>>
>> course, on top of all this, we still would need a utility to put a
>> filesystem on there since e2fsutils got pulled from the package.
>>
> 
> The partition schema has problems with >2TB, so there is more that simply using a larger datatype,
> 2 TB is restriction of DOS partiton format.
> 
> see here and others:
> * http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html
> 

I drop over an article concerning the >2TB problem:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gpt/index.html
it mention an GPT aware fdisk (aka gdisk).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/files/

maybe some will take a look a gdisk.

re,
 wh




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