Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up
Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
> 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?
fdisk. Sorry if I didn´t mention it anywhere in my post.
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