Messages in this thread | | | From | Kevin Corry <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:14:31 -0500 |
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On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:08, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > So, will the DOS partition make it up to 2TB? If so, then we won't have > > a problem until we have larger than 2TB drives > > Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with > 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB. > > People are encountering that limit already. We need something > better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something. > > Andries
I would suggest the GPT format. It was originally designed for use with the IA-64 EFI firmware, but works just fine on any other architecture. It's 64-bit, so no 2 TB limitations. It also avoids the primary vs. extended vs. logical partition weirdness that DOS has.
-- Kevin Corry kevcorry@us.ibm.com http://evms.sourceforge.net/
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