Re: "big" machines running Debian?

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:42:43PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> The comparison wasn't between having the raid controller or LVM present
>> a reasonable size /, it was between a reasonable size / and a 2TB /.
>
> No one ever wanted a 2TB /.  I just wanted / on a drive that was bigger
> than 2TB and hence couldn't use dos partition tables anymore.  I only
> have a 10GB / :)  Making a 10GB raid volume and a seperate raid volume
> for the rest just to be able to use dos partition tables for the /
> is just awkward.

Not to repeat myself but a GPT with an entry for /boot in its fake
MS-Dos table works just fine.

MfG
        Goswin