Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken?

David Hamm (dhamm@luxbbs.itserve.com)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:40:07 -0500 (EST)


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:

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> 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
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