[Novalug] Mounting 20TB XFS

[List Man]

It is a raided FS.  I was able to fix it.  

Thx

LS


On Sep 14, 2011, at 9:16 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:

>  Holy Crap Indeed! Why would you put your ROOT fs on such a big disk?
> 
> And speaking of which...who makes disks that big?
> 
> I would say that your best bet is to install a Rescue Linux in 
> /boot...simply do a new uinstall but Do Not Format.
> 
> Essentially, what you get is the union of / and /boot together.
> 
> JIM
> 
> On 9/13/2011 1:49 PM, The Doctor wrote:
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>> On 09/13/2011 10:30 AM, List Man wrote:
>>> Is it possible to mount a 20TB XFS filesystem with a live cd?  I have
>>> this server with three partitions, 1 15GB swap, 5GB boot in ext3, and
>>> 20TB XFS for everything else.  This server will not boot because grub
>>> has gone awry on it.  I need to be able to boot into the 20TB XFS fs
>>> because I need to fix grub.  So far google has not been any help.  Any
>> ideas?
>> 
>> 20 terabytes?  Holy crap.
>> 
>> If the live distro supports GPT in addition to the usual DOS-style
>> partition table and XFS, you should not have problems.
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