On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi: > > From the 'fdisk' page: > > "" > fdisk doesn't understand GUID Partition Table (GPT) > and it is not designed for large partitions. > "" > > What size would constitute a large partition ? > > > thanks > Saifi. > > > Short Answer: 2TB Details: In a Guid Partition Table, a partition entry's 'first LBA' and 'last LBA' fields are 8 bytes in size. So it supports partitions of size 2^64 blocks (approx). Block size is considered 512 bytes. Traditional partition table entry's 'partition size' is 4 bytes. So it supports partitions of size 2^32 sectors (where sector size is also considered as 512 bytes). So the max size is 2TB.
