2013/5/21 Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size. > > > > I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But > > fdisk (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a partition > > larger than 2TB. > > > > I've thought about creating three 1TB partitions then using LVM to > > merge them into one, but that seems like over-kill. > > > > Has anybody got a suggestion? > > If this isn't to be a boot disk, then try running pvcreate directly on > the disk itself. LVM doesn't need a partition table if it's the only > thing on the disk (it will basically act as its own partition table). I > don't know, offhand what the limitations of LVM are but I'm willing to > bet they're better than a DOS-style partition table. > > Use parted instead fdisk: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html
-- regards, Mariusz Sielicki
