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...What is the work around? Is there a limit how big a file system ca be? I've tried to partition it but no matter how bug partition I create fdisk spits out these messages on the console: --- sdb: very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdb: 10248519680 512-byte hdwr sectors (5247242 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off --- I decided to not partition the drive and use LVM but the physical volume stopped at 2TB. So, right now I can't use LVM because of this 2TB limit and I'm not sure if I partition the drive how good these partitions are because of the the message from fdi...

...the controller to create smaller logical partitions. Then combine them with LVM. - If you really want to partition the drive use parted. While partitioning if you run into this message: === sdb: very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdb: 10248519680 512-byte hdwr sectors (5247242 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off === you can just ignore it. It's informational (based on a few people replies). If you don't like parted you can still use fdisk to create a few 2TB partitions and then use LVM. - Use LVM on the raw device. Don't partition. This is what I d...