Re: [gentoo-user] md-device too small: where's my mistake?

Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: md2 is the one that gives me headaches. AFAI understand it should be about 3TB in size, but it is only 774 GB # fdisk -l /dev/md2 Platte /dev/md2: 774.0 GByte, 774044975104 Byte I am surprised that noone seems to have advice for me. Is my mistake so

Re: [gentoo-user] md-device too small: where's my mistake?

Am Wednesday 22 October 2008 15:58:44 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: md2 is the one that gives me headaches. AFAI understand it should be about 3TB in size, but it is only 774 GB # fdisk -l /dev/md2 Platte /dev/md2: 774.0 GByte, 774044975104 Byte 2 Köpfe, 4 Sektoren/Spuren, 188975824

Re: [gentoo-user] md-device too small: where's my mistake?

Heiko Wundram schrieb: You cannot manage disks = ~2TB with fdisk (i.e., DOS partition tables), as they (or rather the on-disk-structure of DOS partition tables) have an inherent limitation in the maximum number of LBA48-blocks they can address. I'd presume that because of this inherent

[gentoo-user] md-device too small: where's my mistake?

Greets, I currently try to setup a md-device containing of 4 partitions on 4 SATA-drives: # fdisk -l | grep sd Platte /dev/sda: 1000.2 GByte, 1000204886016 Byte /dev/sda1 1 2 16033+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 3 21 152617+ 82