2tb limit?

[Dan Lund]

On 5/2/07, steve crandell <steven.crandell at icrossing.com> wrote:

>
> Yes, an msdos label will cause this problem.
> msdos labels report inaccurate info to the OS about your device/partitions.
> Thus your "disk full" issue when you should have had additional physical
> space available.  As soon as you get a gpt label on their you'll get
> access to all your space minus journaling space requirements.

Okay, I'll change that tomorrow after the backup is complete.

>
> That said, my hypothesis is that you can get the numbers you need from
> the output of the parted print command (start/end).
> That will likely be useful in bringing your partitions back to life
> (`rescue`) -as they exist right now- which of course is the wrong size.
> At that point you would want to `resize` the partition up to the max (0%
> to 100% works) size assuming you don't have another partition further
> out on the platter than the one you're working with.

I just looked and noticed that I added the whole disk as a physical
volume to LVM.  That should make it alot easier, right?  (i.e. no
partitions)


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