> I believe GUID Partition Tables (GPTs) are the answer.
>
> I believe one of the features of GPT is the elimination of the 32-bit
> sector restrictions.
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
>
> Windows VISTA 64-bit supports GPTs on data disks and new Mac OS based
> systems have been using it on internal drives for a couple years at
> least.
>
> GPTs are part of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), so they
> should be usable for PC bootable disks at some point. (Maybe now in
> some cases?)
>
> I'm not sure what the Linux Kernel support is for GPTs.