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一、实际问题 1.1 我在一次需求当中，要分一个大小为5TB的分区出来，这个时候，我们继续用fdisk来分区的话发现是不可行的，原来fdisk分区使用的是MBR模式，单个分区最大为2TB，超过2TB的就需要用到GPT模式了。那么如何创建大于2TB的分区，然后再使用LVM来管理呢？ 1.2 通过查看fdisk的帮助文档，里面提到了fdisk不能识别GPT，它适用于小分区，大的分区需要使用parted. [root@caolong_host ~]# man fdisk DESCRIPTION Hard disks can be divided into one or more logical disks called partitions. This division is described in the partition table found in sector 0 of the disk. In the BSD world one talks about ‘disk slices’ and a ‘disklabel’. Linux needs at least one partition, namely for its root file system. It can use swap files and/or swap partitions, but the latter are more efficient. So, usually one will want a second Linux partition dedicated as swap partition. On Intel compatible hardware, the BIOS that boots the system can often only access the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. For this reason people with large disks often create a third partition, just a few MB large, typically mounted on /boot, to store the kernel image and a few auxiliary files needed at boot time, so as to make sure that this stuff is accessible to the BIOS. There may be reasons of security, ease of administration and backup, or testing, to use more than the minimum number of partitions. fdisk (in the first form of invocation) is a menu driven program for creation and manipulation of partition tables. It understands DOS type partition tables and BSD or SUN type disklabels. fdisk doesn’t understand GUID Partition Table (GPT) and it is not designed for large partitions. In particular case use more advanced GNU parted(8). The device is usually /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or so. A device name refers to the entire disk. The old systems without libata (a library used inside the Linux kernel to support ATA host con- trollers and devices) make a difference between IDE and SCSI disks. In such a case the device