On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Dr. Gustav Quade wrote: > for an advanced scientific project we use a large server with 64Gbyte memory > and 10TB disk space. Since some jobs will run for several weeks we plan to use > virtual machines which can be saved during maintenance tasks. > > Using kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1-xen x86_64 I can create a several terabytes large > partition using yast. Using xfs I created a 4.7 terabytes large file. > df -k: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sde1 6835799424 4608001068 2227798356 68% /test > > > Fdisk, sfdisk or cfdisk show wrong partition size.
[...] > I have two questions: > > 1. why fdisk is not showing the correct partition date? The classical PC (MS-DOS) partition table uses 32-bit block numbers. So you'll be in trouble with partitions >= 2TB. Nothing to be done about that. You could go for a GPT scheme (at least parted can do it 'mklabel gpt'). Or, as a simple workaround, don't use partitions. Steffen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
