for anything 3 G and over use gparted . The old dos partition table can't
hack that size disk
On Nov 2, 2013 12:09 AM, "John Jason Jordan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Normally my good friend Mr. Google helps me, but this time all he has
> created is confusion.
>
> I have a brand new 4TB Western Digital hard disk (WD4001FAEX-0,
> SATA-3, the expensive one ("Black") with 5-year warranty). I want to
> format it as one partition ext4. I will never want to boot from this
> disk; it is purely for data storage.
>
> I started with Palimpsest, which sees it (/dev/sdc), but can't seem to
> do anything with it. So I installed Gparted, which offers to create
> partitions, but fails. My confusion started when Gparted asked me if I
> wanted a primary partition or an extended partition. In the end it
> didn't matter, because Gparted failed to create either kind of
> partition. Google has utterly failed to explain the difference between
> primary and secondary to me. There is also the matter of GUID
> partitions, which I also can't get a clear understanding of.
>
> My (dim) understanding is that the old 2TB partition limit is no longer
> an issue since kernel 2.6. But that doesn't mean that the tools I am
> using are aware that the limit no longer exists.
>
> I tried fdisk, which sees the drive (sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc), but it
> says that it is not suitable for large partitions and refers me to
> parted. The man page for parted is too cursory for me to understand the
> syntax. I think I need mkpart, but I'm not sure.
>
> I could use some pointers here.
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