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 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
