How can i create 1TB partition on RHEL4

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HI

 

How can i create 1 TB partitions on RHEL4.

Is there any way to do that? at the time of installation i tried to create 1TB with ext3, but it failed.

 

Do i need ext4 for creating 1TB file-system.?

 

please help me

 

regards,

Ben

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any help please

If I remember correctly, RHEL 4 ext3 supports up to at least 4Tb, if not more.  And there should be no issues with 1Tb partitions, either (the concerns with msdos vs GPT come in at 2Tb). 

 

In what way did it fail?  Was this an error from the anaconda installer?

 

I'm assuming the 1Tb file system is not your root file system, so can you just leave the device in questions unpartitioned/unformatted during installation, and then afterwards manually partition and format it with fdisk or parted, and mkfs.ext3?  Does it succeed that way?

 

Regards,

John Ruemker, RHCA

Software Maintenance Engineer

Global Support Services

Red Hat, Inc.

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