Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS they
> have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should work. But with
> 512 byte sectors you have a 2 TB limit when you use MBR partitioning.
>
> 3 TB disks with 4 KB sectors both hardware (physical) and software
> (logical) should just work, provided the Linux is new enough.
>
> On Squeeze use -cu as additional options (see manpage).
Sorry for jumping in here, but I can't figure out (from your post) which
command requires the additional options: -cu. Which manpage?
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