[Cialug] Mounting big disks

[Nathan C. Smith]

Looks like fdisk:
fdisk v2.12r 

Kernel:
Linux sunfire 2.6.15-27-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 02:13:27 UTC 2006 i686
GNU/Linux

I guess I am going to learn about GPT partitions.  :)

In theory iSCSI should not be any different from any other block device, but
realit is often unpredictable.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Porter [mailto:atporter at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:34 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mounting big disks
> 
> 
> 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 
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