Linux and drives > 2 terabytes; questions.

[Walter Dnes]

  I picked up a 2 TB external USB drive for backup use today.  I noticed
a few 3 TB drives were available.  So here are my questions.  I think I
know the answers, but I've done stuff like that before,  So to save
myself potential embaressment, I want to confirm...

1) I know that "legacy-booting" linux only works up to 2.1 TB.  Can I
make multiple partions?  E.g. boot from a 250 meg partition, and have
the rest of a large drive mounted as one or more partitions?  This is a
throwback to the old days of having the boot partition entirely within
the first 1024 cylinders.

2) For non-boot usage (e.g. external USB drives), I don't think that 2.1
TB should be a problem.  I use ReiserFS, which can handle up to a 16 TB
partion.  Is that correct?

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