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Old 07-06-2009
RHEL 5 supports only 2 TB space for a partition !
Dear Friends ,

I am using Redhat Ent Linux 5.0 with a EMC storage which HDD space is 4 TB. After Installing RHEL 5 , I get 4 TB space available but when I am going to create a partition then the OS show 2TB available space . I cannot create a partition above 2TB space . Is there any limitation of linux regarding this issue ?

I am trying to create partition during installation of o/s and after installation of o/s (using fdisk) .

Plz inform ..
Last edited by shipon_97; 07-06-2009 at 02:26 PM..
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Old 07-06-2009
What kernel version are you running? What architecture and what command are you using to create the partition?
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Old 07-13-2009
RHEL 5 supports only 2 TB space for a partition !
Friends ,

I already solved the problem . I did it using linux 'parted' command . Because fdisk has the limitation to do it .
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Old 07-13-2009
Using a LVM will also solve this issue.

Use a full disk drive instead of a single partition.

ie:
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/cciss/c1d0
VG Name vg02
PV Size 6.14 TB / not usable 888.50 KB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 1609588
Free PE 1071988
Allocated PE 537600
Last edited by rcjmack; 07-13-2009 at 07:54 PM..
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