Hi all,

I was wondering if there is a parition limit in windows 2003 R2?
I just bought a san, and want to have a 2TB partition. Is that possible? I
tried diskpart command, but it wont go further than 2GB partitions.

any ideas? thank you!!

For MBR disks, the max partition size is 2TB. If you convert the disk to
GPT, you'll be able to create partitions up to 18EB (exabytes). Reference
the following for more details about GPT disks:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/f9172c16-0114-49dc-bc92-608ff17b76e51033.mspx?mfr=true

Regards,
John

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You can format 2TB partition NTFS on Windows 2003 for MBR disk

However; you must use a 4KB cluster size. (called "Default Allocation Size"
when formatting)

Please see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365/

For larger partitions use GPT disk, please follow John's post.

HTH,
_Edwin.


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