On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 08:13:16PM +1300, Alex King wrote:
> Hi,
hi
> I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian (bookworm) on
> it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger.
I have a 16TB drive that is working properly. I reformatted the drive to the ext4 file system with default settings and it works great. Try to reformat the drive especially if the current format is FAT.
>
> How can I get Debian to use the full 8TB on this disk?
It seems that the combination of MBR partition table and 512 byte blocks
limits you to partition sizes (and offsets) of roughly 2T, so it might
be this what's biting you:
https://superuser.com/questions/1393198/what-is-the-maximum-size-of-hard-drive-used-mbr-partitioning
Cheers
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