[Novalug] Mounting 20TB XFS

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Tue Sep 13 13:49:11 EDT 2011


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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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