Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>:
> 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.
Thanks, I've tried everything but not success. The problem is that the
disk is already half full and aligned with WD tools. I am just waiting
for linux to be able to read it and write it as efficiently as Windows
does it, at the moment I am not able to read it, which is very
frustrating.
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