You were right. It worked w/o fdisking.. The only other trick was to change the size of the addressing from 1k to 8k. Thanks guys, Chris -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Matthew S. Hallacy Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 3:33 PM To: Chris Smith Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] largest partition on fc3? Either use the device without partitioning (as Josh suggested) or use 'parted' to partition it. fdisk has serious issues. FYI, you'll have problems with mke2fs if you're using debian, grab a static binary from elsewhere if necessary. On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -0600, Chris Smith wrote: > I just got a 7TB SAN and I'd like to be able to mount the thing as one > large partition..but it appears I hit the 32bit limit with fdisk. I've > googled all over the place, anyone have any hints? I saw something > about a config_lbd, but i don't see that in my kernel mkconfig.. > > TIA, > Chris -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list