[Cialug] Gpt drives and management tools

[Aaron Porter]

On 7/3/07, Tom Pohl <tom at tcpconsulting.com> wrote:
> I had to take my raid array and turn the 6TB array into 3 - 2TB
> virtual drives in the SCSI bios.  If you use LVM, it's no big deal
> putting them back together to make a 6TB filesystem, but apparently
> linux doesn't like to see a single drive bigger than 2TB.

That's not strictly true, I've done 10tb single volumes (XFS, ext3
maxed out at 8tb iirc). Some important things (grub & lilo, eg) don't
like large block devices, but if you're not booting off them, it
should be fine.

I used parted and mkfs.ext3 on Debian Etch. With a gpt partition table.