Friday, April 22, 2011

How to create bigger than 2TB partition table on linux?

■ Requirement : create bigger than 2TB partition table
■ OS Environment : Linux[RHEL, Centos]
■ Application: parted
■  File system : ext3, ext4,xfs, gfs
■ Implementation Steps : 

Partition table msdos has limitation of partition table size and it is less than equal 2TB. Use parted command to change the partition table type to support more than 2TB size. Please do like :

$parted /dev/dev_name
$mklabel gpt
$quit

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