1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
* mount -uw /
* rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
* shutdown -h now
4. After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!
Silly me, didn’t realise that NTFS had a limit of 2TB partitions (This is why you research.).
I have a Dell Poweredge DP500 with 6x 1TB disks.
My options:
Go Linux - not at this point in time. Though I seriously considered it.
Use GPT partitions (System drive cannot be a GPT drive, hence I lose some drives still)
What I ended up opting for was:
1x RAID 1 array for OS - 1TB
1x RAID 5 array for data - 3TB (Converted the disk to GPT)
So I lose 2 drives to redundancy in this config instead of the 1 I would have liked.
Ideally what needs to happen is:
- Manufacturers (maybe some do) to support EFI firmwares so we can boot GPT partitions.
- For them to make it well known that there is a limit when buying these items and configs.
*Update: Been told Server 2008 and Vista don’t have this problem but I don’t have licenses for those yet.
Good reading for this topic:
https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT-on-x64.mspx
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/4b35160a-4e27-4258-9e8b-e2088f8a757a1033.mspx?mfr=true
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/2003_Server/Q_23066074.html
http://www.carltonbale.com/2007/05/how-to-break-the-2tb-2-terabyte-file-system-limit/
Useful for testing ecommerce sites and the numerous online stores that enjoy not telling me how much their gear costs to ship to Australia before I order. So I have to resort to using test CC numbers.