Re: How to partition a 3TB disk? [SOLVED]

2013-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Dan Hitt wrote On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rick, fdisk and cfdisk are being honest with you. 2.19T is the limit. But you can partition it as gpt, and have many many partitions on it, or i believe one huge one. You can use the live gparted cd to do

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size. I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But fdisk (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a partition larger than 2TB. I've thought about

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:28 PM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 05/20/13 17:20, Rick Thomas wrote: I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size. I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But fdisk ... Install parted and read the man page for

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-21 Thread Mariusz Sielicki
2013/5/21 Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size. I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But fdisk (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-20 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi Rick, fdisk and cfdisk are being honest with you. 2.19T is the limit. But you can partition it as gpt, and have many many partitions on it, or i believe one huge one. You can use the live gparted cd to do it. (ubuntu will also do it for you automatically, but not wanting to bring up things

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-20 Thread sp113438
On Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:00 -0700 Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rick, fdisk and cfdisk are being honest with you. 2.19T is the limit. I have a Deskstar 5400 4 TB from Hitachi (now WD?). I ended up with having 2 partitions of 2 TB. I could not make one 4 TB partition on that

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-20 Thread sp113438
On Tue, 21 May 2013 03:04:25 +0200 sp113438 sp113...@telfort.nl wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:00 -0700 Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rick, fdisk and cfdisk are being honest with you. 2.19T is the limit. I have a Deskstar 5400 4 TB from Hitachi (now WD?). I ended up

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-20 Thread David Christensen
On 05/20/13 17:20, Rick Thomas wrote: I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size. I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But fdisk (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a partition larger than 2TB. Install parted and read the man page for the mklabel