Re: How to partition a 3TB disk?
Hi Rick,
fdisk and cfdisk are being honest with you.
2.19T is the limit.
But you can partition it as gpt, and have many many partitions on it,
or i believe one huge one.
You can use the live gparted cd to do it.
(ubuntu will also do it for you automatically, but not wanting to
bring up things that may be
too far from what you need or want.)
Good luck!
dan
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size.
>
> I'm trying to partition it. I want one huge ext4 filesystem. But fdisk
> (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a partition larger than
> 2TB.
>
> I've thought about creating three 1TB partitions then using LVM to merge
> them into one, but that seems like over-kill.
>
> Has anybody got a suggestion?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rick
>
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