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Re: [Networker] Storage node with AFTD device greater than 2TB on Windows

2011-04-12 04:57:12
Subject: Re: [Networker] Storage node with AFTD device greater than 2TB on Windows
From: Riku Valli <riku.valli AT UTA DOT FI>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:55:43 +0300
tonyalbers wrote:
> Sorry all, I was repyling to this:
>
> "We're thinking of changing the configuration of one of our storage nodes.
> Right now, it writes to an AFTD device that is a 2TB NTFS formatted drive
> (presented from the SAN). 2TB is the max size of an NTFS drive that was
> initialized as an MBR drive. However, if you initialize the drive as a
> GUID partition, it supports sizes greater than 2TB (so the documentation
> says)"
>   

It's is 2TB for basic disk systems and 62TB for dynamic disk systems.
I hope at below links help.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773268%28WS.10%29.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237853

Regards, Riku
> Hi Michael,
>
> Have you got this working? I'm having issues at a customer site where they 
> have a 20TB NTFS volume mounted on mount-points on windows 2003.
>
> /tony
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