Re: [CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-09 Thread Bent Terp
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Manish Kathuria mkathu...@tuxtechnologies.co.in wrote: Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( 2 TB) external storage devices using GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the main OS resides on smaller hard disks using MBR. In this scenario, what can be the largest possible

[CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-08 Thread Manish Kathuria
Hello, Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( 2 TB) external storage devices using GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the main OS resides on smaller hard disks using MBR. In this scenario, what can be the largest possible size of an ext3 partition (and filesystem) which can be created on the storage

Re: [CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-08 Thread Phil Manuel
This might help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table We certainly have a GPT partition of 15Tb but I know it can go much larger. Phil. Manish Kathuria wrote: Hello, Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( 2 TB) external storage devices using GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the main

Re: [CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-08 Thread Manish Kathuria
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Phil Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: This might help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table We certainly have a GPT partition of 15Tb but I know it can go much larger. Phil. Thanks Phil. I had seen that site before and I wanted to know the status on

Re: [CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-08 Thread Phil Manuel
Manish Kathuria wrote: Thanks Phil. I had seen that site before and I wanted to know the status on the current CentOS kernels. Are you running CentOS 5.x and using LVM for this partition or have you formatted it as ext3 filesystem directly ? -- Manish