storage
Creating large (>2TB) Linux Partitions
Submitted by Vlad on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 17:45.Now that the era of 1 TB drives is upon us, we're rapidly closing in on a limitation imposed by the legacy x86 MBR which contains the OS loader and partition tables. Due to the 32-bit nature of the MBR, the maximum partition size is 2 TB; a limit that must have seemed impossibly large 20 years ago, when hard disks were measured in MB and only the largest hard drives were more than one hundred megabytes in size!
