Well today I purchased a 3tb internal hard drive for a computer. I was hoping to place that into a machine as the only hard drive and install Fedora onto in. I then found out that not all OS's support hard drive partitions 2.2Tb. I was wondering if Fedora supports 3tb and if it doesn't if any distro's do. If that fails me does anyone know how I can install fedora onto the hard drive or another similar OS. Thankyou in advance.

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Well today I purchased a 3tb internal hard drive for a computer. I was hoping to place that into a machine as the only hard drive and install Fedora onto in. I then found out that not all OS's support hard drive partitions >2.2Tb. I was wondering if Fedora supports 3tb and if it doesn't if any distro's do. If that fails me does anyone know how I can install fedora onto the hard drive or another similar OS. Thankyou in advance.

espex · Answer

Why not just take the hard drive and partition it into two seperate  partitions?

anonymous · Answer

eSpeX makes a good point, but I doubt you would have to do that. I'm assuming you'd be using an ext3 filesystem: this would allow you to have a hdd up to 32 Tib (see source below). Also, let's say you use LVM to partition your hdd: depending on your architecture, this would allow you to have a hdd up to 8 Eib (again see source). So I kind of doubt that you're going to have problems with a 2.2 Tb drive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#Size_limits http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/lvm2faq.html#AEN407

anonymous · Answer

What keeps you from trying it? Most Linux distributions are free-as-in-beer. Just download Fedora if you prefer that distro, burn a CD or DVD, and boot from it.
You will usually be asked to partition your drive(s) anyway.