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The problem is that fdisk will not make a large partition. So use parted. See [http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html Parted User Guide] '''RTFM!''' <br> | The problem is that fdisk will not make a large partition. So use parted. See [http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html Parted User Guide] '''RTFM!''' <br> | ||
Here is a howto: [http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/linux_larger_2TB.html Mini-Howto on Big Disks] | Here is a howto: [http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/linux_larger_2TB.html Mini-Howto on Big Disks] | ||
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Steps: | Steps: | ||
Latest revision as of 22:01, 27 February 2009
Multi Terabyte Partitions
Because this is not done often, no body bother's to make it easy, until Seagate comes out with an >2TB drive, maybe.
The problem is that fdisk will not make a large partition. So use parted. See Parted User Guide RTFM!
Here is a howto: Mini-Howto on Big Disks
WARNING Parted will destroy all your data and NOT ask questions first.
Steps:
parted /dev/sda mklabel gpt # Make a GPT disk label (partition table) which can deal with >2TB parted /dev/sda print # Print the current geometry back. This will tell you the size of the disk parted /dev/sda mkpart primary ext3 0 5000GB # Make a partition, starting at 0 and 5TB in size. mke2fs -j -m0 -L tarodata /dev/sda1 # Make a file system, ext3, no extra space for super user, with label.
That's All Folks.
