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I'm able to mount a hfsplus USB LaCIE external 4.0TB drive on CentOS 5.5. However there seems to be a 2.0TB limit. Is there a way to mount hfsplus to ...
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    How to mount hfsplus >2Tb

    I'm able to mount a hfsplus USB LaCIE external 4.0TB drive on CentOS 5.5.
    However there seems to be a 2.0TB limit.
    Is there a way to mount hfsplus to recognize beyond 2TB?

    When I try to copy beyond 2TB I get in /var/log/messages:
    Oct 14 09:42:52 itsvlan00120 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
    Oct 14 09:42:52 itsvlan00120 kernel: sdb3: rw=1, want=3865309848, limit=3518828720
    Oct 14 09:42:52 itsvlan00120 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
    Oct 14 09:42:52 itsvlan00120 kernel: sdb3: rw=1, want=3865311384, limit=3518828720

    $ df -h
    /dev/sdb3 3.7T 2.0T 1.8T 53% /media/LaCie3


    # fdisk -l /dev/sdb

    Disk /dev/sdb: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255552 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

    # mount
    /dev/sdb3 on /media/LaCie3 type hfsplus (rw)

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    Until OSX 10.2 there was a hard 2TB volume size limit. I don't know which version the Linux hfs support tools are written to, but that may well be the case. How did you create the volume? Was it on an Apple system, or Linux?
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    Linux Guru know more then me here hfsplus file system can mounted in Linux as i see in mac os
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