[Cialug] Gpt drives and management tools

[Aaron Porter]

On 7/3/07, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> Does one of them (ext3 or xfs) play better than the other? I have it
> "working" right now but I'm not sure I trust it.  df -H reports a different
> size than parted does - I assume because df -H  is using the MFT hack to
> read the info.  Parted reports the size I think it should be.

I ended up re-partitioning into 5tb volumes and using ext3. To the
best of my knowledge, it's still up and running. XFS will let you have
much larger filesystems, but it didn't seem worth the effort (backing
up 5tb volumes is painful enough).