Hard Drive -- How LARGE?

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Pete Clapham <peteclapham at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> How large a hard drive can Intrepid handle?  I would like to use my
> Seagate 1.5 Terabyte drives, but Intrepid seems not to want to admit
> they exist.  Is there a work around that will solve the problem?
>
> Thanks.
>

Ubuntu uses EXT3 by default (I think) which has a maximum partition
limit of 32TB while XFS has a limit of 8 exabytes.  Unless you chose
XFS during the install of Ubuntu then you're using EXT3 so there is no
problem with you using the whole drive if that is what you want

As to why it not being seen I can't answer that question.  I know
Ubuntu can support SATA, my laptop has a SATA drive and I was able to
use it with Ubuntu just fine when I tried it.

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