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Subject: Re: what is the safe <2 TB number, precisely ?
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Ivan Voras writes:


> As Eric said, the 2 TB issue is not tied to the file system. It's tied
> to the fdisk and disklabel. A perfectly valid workaround is not to use
> fdisk & disklabel to partition your drive, but to partition it in the
> array creation utility (safest) or use gpt (but you can't modify the gpt
> table if there are mounted partitions on it).
> 
> Thus, you can do "newfs /dev/da1", "mount /dev/da1 /whatever", etc.

Where can I find information about the "array creation utility"?

A couple of searches did not return anything.