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Cannot create 4 TB partition on ms.win 2003 svr
HI all
I just create 1 Lun with size 4 TB and assign to one host with win 2003 svr install. I can detect the LUN on host but i cannot create a partition with size 4 TB, and its only 2 TB and cannot do anything with the other 2 TB. Can someone help wtih this
Thanks All
Winarto
I just create 1 Lun with size 4 TB and assign to one host with win 2003 svr install. I can detect the LUN on host but i cannot create a partition with size 4 TB, and its only 2 TB and cannot do anything with the other 2 TB. Can someone help wtih this
Thanks All
Winarto
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March 17th, 2009 03:00
For MBR disks, the max partition size is 2TB. If you convert the disk to GPT, you'll be able to create partitions up to 18EB (exabytes).
Take a look here
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/f9172c16-0114-49dc-bc92-608ff17b76e51033.mspx?mfr=true
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March 17th, 2009 03:00
winarto
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March 17th, 2009 19:00
Thanks a lot for the link