Sorry to test your patience, but you gave me theĪnswers I needed. Thanks, Old-Polack, for making things clear. With GPT partitioning the partition size limit is the capacity of the drive itself. It's a matter of user choice as to how one wants the space divided, or if one wants it divided at all. There is no rule that the drive has to have more than a single partition with a specific size limit when using GPT partitions. The 3TB and 4TB drives can then be partitioned using GPT partitioning, and can be any number of partitions you choose, from a single partition covering the whole drive, to any number of partitions you choose, if you wish to further compartmentalize how you store your data. From that point all additional partitions will be logical partitions and can be left as unpartitioned space for the moment, with additional partitions added in the appropriate size for the use intended, when the need arises. If you plan to install more than one OS, to have a multi boot machine, all of the above can be comfortably kept on three primary partitions within the first 100GB of the hard drive capacity, with the fourth primary partition being used as the extended partition covering the remainder of the drive. The /home partition can be the entire remainder of the hard drive, or it can be relatively small, if you are the only user of that machine and keep all of your personal data on separate data partitions. Last would be a /home partition for your personal data and desktop modifications, to make reinstalling easier and keep those customizations separate from the / partition. If you don't ever use the hibernate option, swap can be smaller. Next a swap partition, and if you intend to use the hibernate option this should be twice the amount of your physical RAM. You would need a / partition of about 20-25 GB, to allow enough room for the installed OS, additional applications you may wish to add, and enough free space to run mylivecd in its default manner, without having to take special precautions due to lack of space. To keep it simple, If you use a single 2TB drive as your boot drive, you can partition it using MBR type partitions. Installer to "use existing partitions," or Try to boot from it and as long as the partitionsĪren't larger than 1.8 Tb, THAT would give me: Of a 3.6-Tb drive NOW, as long as I don't On the other hand, assuming I can use ALL Second partition to each drive, I assume. (1.8 x 6), with no extra room at all, but theĭata would be safe, and later I could add a Would this work? It would only be 10.8 Tb Rest unpartitioned, my new setup would be: Now, if I replace sda with a 512-bute-sectorġ.8 Tb drive, and replace sdb-sdf with fiveĤ096-byte-sector 3.6-Tb drives, each withĪ single 1.8-Tb partition for now, with the Right now I have six old disks with all my data on them,Īccording to DU, that's a total of 13 Tb, Than 2 Tb, but you can use them all for storage. Somewhere else people seem to be saying that you can't BOOT from drives larger At one pointĮarly in this dialogue you say you weren't able to get more than 2 Tb on a drive, Old-Polack, this old Finn needs clarification. Possible data loss? "Can't have overlapping partitions"
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