Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-23 Thread Marc Paré
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

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-22 Thread Marc Paré
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.

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-22 Thread David W. Hodgins
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

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-22 Thread Norman Carver
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

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-22 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
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?

2013-02-22 Thread AL13N
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

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-20 Thread Papoteur
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?

2013-02-20 Thread Luiz Alberto Saba
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

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-20 Thread Papoteur
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

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-20 Thread Luiz Alberto Saba
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

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

2013-02-20 Thread bascule
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