Re: large raid array and fedora 5

tat staggered into the Black Sun and said:
I want to create only one linux partition on a raid 5 array (3.5 TB).
I could not do that with fdisk in fedora 5. I read the net and found
out about 2TB size limit.

Ordinary x86 partition tables are limited in the partition sizes that
can be specified. 32 bits unsigned max * 512-byte sectors = 2T, I
think. You will probably need to use a GPT table.

I have been using a cluster from somewhere in my school and with df
command I saw that the home directory is a raid array and its size is
5.5TB. The cluster is running some kind of linux

The maximum size of an ext3 filesystem is 2T. They might be using XFS,
which can handle larger filesystems.

How can I create a single partition (ext3) on [a 3.5T] raid-5? What
command should I use?

You can't have an ext3 filesystem that's larger than 2T.

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