Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:40:07 -0500 (EST) | From | David Hamm <> | Subject | Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken? |
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Are you saying that you don't have to partition single volume drives? You can just run mke2fs on the raw device? Like this. mke2fs /dev/sdb mount /dev/sdb /mnt/morespace
On 25 Jan 1999, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you are only going to make a single partition on that raid array, > don't bother. Just mkfs on the main device and mount that. > > And if you do want to break up a >64G device, do it at the raid level. > (Once the individial raid devices are less than 64G, then, of course, > you can partition if you need.) > > - -JimC > - -- > James H. Cloos, Jr. <http://www.jhcloos.com/cloos/public_key> 1024D/ED7DAEA6 > <cloos@jhcloos.com> E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v0.9.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE2rQBemXqfF+19rqYRArMqAJ9E185KYAkz++sCKpmc1480yL5ziwCgpBdr > JkdJyQ29aIyyldSyOZKSoCM= > =FRyJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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