Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
Le 2013-02-22 17:28, David W. Hodgins a écrit : I am just curious, as I was looking at 2TB drives yesterday. Not that I am planning on buying a 3TB drive, but, is there a reason why Mageia can't partition a 3TB drive? The sector numbers in the partition table in the dos style mbr are limited to 32 bits. With 512 byte sectors, that means sectors past 2TB cannot be specified. Using drives larger than 2TB either means using larger sectors, or a different style of partitioning, such as a GUID Partition Table, aka gpt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table The partitioning tool used in the installer, diskdrake currently only works with dos style mbr partitioning. Regards, Dave Hodgins Thanks for the info and thanks to all of the rest of the people and answers after this as well. It's nice to know. While I think of it. Is Mageia considering doing anything about this? I saw 3TB and 4TB disks on the shelves. Marc -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
Le 2013-02-20 12:47, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Em 20-02-2013 14:07, Papoteur escreveu: Le 20/02/2013 17:07, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Em 20-02-2013 13:03, Papoteur escreveu: Le 20/02/2013 16:02, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Having problems trying to configure partition greater than 2 TB. Is there anything that can be done? Luiz Alberto Saba I think you must use GPT partitionning. Have you tried that? Papoteur How can I do that? Hello, I never done that, but I found some indication in the wiki: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_with_GPT_Partition_Table You can use gdisk to prepare partitions before installation. I hope this help. Papoteur It worked! Thanks I am just curious, as I was looking at 2TB drives yesterday. Not that I am planning on buying a 3TB drive, but, is there a reason why Mageia can't partition a 3TB drive? Cheers, Marc -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
I am just curious, as I was looking at 2TB drives yesterday. Not that I am planning on buying a 3TB drive, but, is there a reason why Mageia can't partition a 3TB drive? The sector numbers in the partition table in the dos style mbr are limited to 32 bits. With 512 byte sectors, that means sectors past 2TB cannot be specified. Using drives larger than 2TB either means using larger sectors, or a different style of partitioning, such as a GUID Partition Table, aka gpt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table The partitioning tool used in the installer, diskdrake currently only works with dos style mbr partitioning. Regards, Dave Hodgins
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
On Friday, February 22, 2013 05:28:18 PM David W. Hodgins wrote: I am just curious, as I was looking at 2TB drives yesterday. Not that I am planning on buying a 3TB drive, but, is there a reason why Mageia can't partition a 3TB drive? The sector numbers in the partition table in the dos style mbr are limited to 32 bits. With 512 byte sectors, that means sectors past 2TB cannot be specified. Using drives larger than 2TB either means using larger sectors, or a different style of partitioning, such as a GUID Partition Table, aka gpt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table The partitioning tool used in the installer, diskdrake currently only works with dos style mbr partitioning. Glad to know this about diskdrake. People should also know that many 3TB drives now have 4k sectors and so continue to work just fine with MBR partitioning. All the Seagate external drives I have bought in the last few months are that way, and come MBR-partitioned with the entire disk in one primary partition. Norm
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
On Saturday 23. February 2013 05.38, Norman Carver wrote: People should also know that many 3TB drives now have 4k sectors How can one tell if this is the case? -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
Op zaterdag 23 februari 2013 01:59:32 schreef andre999: Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : On Saturday 23. February 2013 05.38, Norman Carver wrote: People should also know that many 3TB drives now have 4k sectors How can one tell if this is the case? fdisk -l /dev/sd* gives both the logical and physical sector sizes at the top (along with other global info), before listing the partitions. It gives this info for both mbr and gpt partition tables. But it only lists the partitions for an mbr partition table. gdisk -l /dev/sd* gives the logical sector size at the top. (It might not indicate a differing physical sector size, but in any case it is the logical size which counts for OS addressing. The physical size is explicitly indicated inside gdisk.) It lists the partitions for both mbr and gpt tables (and maybe other formats). Note : sd* should be sda or sdb or ... , according to the disk in question. when i installed on a 3TB disk, on mga3, i used the rescue to partition it with gdisk, and after that, i did the install those cheap 3TB seagates are good imho i actually bought 6 of those for about 100EUR/piece
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
Le 20/02/2013 16:02, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Having problems trying to configure partition greater than 2 TB. Is there anything that can be done? Luiz Alberto Saba I think you must use GPT partitionning. Have you tried that? Papoteur
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
Em 20-02-2013 13:03, Papoteur escreveu: Le 20/02/2013 16:02, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Having problems trying to configure partition greater than 2 TB. Is there anything that can be done? Luiz Alberto Saba I think you must use GPT partitionning. Have you tried that? Papoteur How can I do that?
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
Le 20/02/2013 17:07, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Em 20-02-2013 13:03, Papoteur escreveu: Le 20/02/2013 16:02, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Having problems trying to configure partition greater than 2 TB. Is there anything that can be done? Luiz Alberto Saba I think you must use GPT partitionning. Have you tried that? Papoteur How can I do that? Hello, I never done that, but I found some indication in the wiki: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_with_GPT_Partition_Table You can use gdisk to prepare partitions before installation. I hope this help. Papoteur
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
Em 20-02-2013 14:07, Papoteur escreveu: Le 20/02/2013 17:07, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Em 20-02-2013 13:03, Papoteur escreveu: Le 20/02/2013 16:02, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit : Having problems trying to configure partition greater than 2 TB. Is there anything that can be done? Luiz Alberto Saba I think you must use GPT partitionning. Have you tried that? Papoteur How can I do that? Hello, I never done that, but I found some indication in the wiki: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_with_GPT_Partition_Table You can use gdisk to prepare partitions before installation. I hope this help. Papoteur It worked! Thanks
Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?
On Wednesday 20 Feb 2013 18:07:31 Papoteur wrote: You can use gdisk to prepare partitions before installation. I hope this help. gparted will create a gpt disk and create the partitions too, nice gui app if you are not sure about command line bascule -- Does it worry you that you don't talk any kind of sense?
