Hello,
I am working with a system that has a 3.8TB volume (RAID5 array).
I need to create 2 partitions on the array - roughly 1.8TB and 2TB.
I have tried 2 applications that I have on Bart (ShadowProtect and Acronis Disk Director) both can see the full volume, but can only partition up to 2TB.
I am wondering whether I have reached a Bart limitation?
Full Version: Maximum size of NTFS partition?
That's not a limit of NTFS-filesystem.
It's a limit of MBR-partitioning scheme; here you have only 32 bits for adressing ...
If you search the web a little about "GPT", "EFI" and so on, you'll find a lot of interesting ...
Greetings, FM_81
It's a limit of MBR-partitioning scheme; here you have only 32 bits for adressing ...
If you search the web a little about "GPT", "EFI" and so on, you'll find a lot of interesting ...
Greetings, FM_81
QUOTE (VeeDub @ Oct 28 2011, 04:58 AM) 
I am working with a system that has a 3.8TB volume (RAID5 array).
Read Windows and GPT FAQ
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525
And http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919117/en-us
Try: use 2003 SP2 and integrated KB919117 to build BartPE.
Just as a follow-up for those that may find this thread in the future.
Using a GPT partition does get around the 2TB limitation, however there are caveats.
Notwithstanding that GPT is no doubt the future and has a 'Protected MBR' to provide some level of backward-compatibility. At the time of writing my experience has been that many disk manager products recognise but do not work with GPT partitions. Over time you would expect this situation should change.
What this has meant in practice for me is that I have reverted to MBR partitions, with a 2TB limitation on each partition.
Using a GPT partition does get around the 2TB limitation, however there are caveats.
Notwithstanding that GPT is no doubt the future and has a 'Protected MBR' to provide some level of backward-compatibility. At the time of writing my experience has been that many disk manager products recognise but do not work with GPT partitions. Over time you would expect this situation should change.
What this has meant in practice for me is that I have reverted to MBR partitions, with a 2TB limitation on each partition.
QUOTE (VeeDub @ Nov 2 2011, 09:12 PM)
What this has meant in practice for me is that I have reverted to MBR partitions, with a 2TB limitation on each partition.
Just for the record, for some uses a "hybrid" approach is possible.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html
jaclaz
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