[Cialug] Mounting big disks

[Aaron Porter]

On 10/24/06, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use iSCSI (open-iscsi) to mount a 2TB volume.
> But when I try to fdisk it has trouble detecting the size and wants me to
> enter cylinder configurations.  Is this the best way to do this?  Do I have
> to work backwards from the disk size to figure out what my cylinder count
> is?

How old is your fdisk? What kernel version are you running? I've never
used iSCSI, but I've done a lot of work with large block devices under
Linux (up to 10TB) with no major problems (well, the lack of a boot
loader than can handle large block devices is kind of a pain). I'd
suggest trying parted. Also keep in mind that the standard partition
table maxes out at 2TB itself. Anything larger and you'll want to go
with GPT partitions.