[Gllug] Backup drive for CentOS 5 remote setup
gvim
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Tue Aug 17 12:56:58 UTC 2010
On 17/08/2010 08:28, Richard Jones wrote:
> With RHEL 5 you'll start to hit problems with drives over 2TB in size
> and drives which use 4K sectors (not sure if such drives are available
> as USB drives yet). The common DOS partitioning scheme (MBR) can't
> cope with partition boundaries> 2 TB, although it works (by luck)
> provided all the partition boundaries are<= 2TB. Drives which report
> only 4K sectors can't be used at all, although they are not common at
> the moment. This of course is all fixed in RHEL 6.
>
> Rich.
>
Why would this be a problem if I'm going to format the drive ext3?
gvim
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