Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

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Subject: Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk
From: Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:10:17 +0100
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Timothy M Butterworth (HE12025-03-11):
> 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

Good for you.

> reformat the drive especially if the current format is FAT.

We have both the kernel and gdisk telling us the block device has the
wrong size: the issue is absolutely not the filesystem on it.

Also, this is not Windows, please do not use “format” as a verb for a
disk.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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References:
- Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk
  - From: Alex King <alex@king.net.nz>
- Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk
  - From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
- Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk
  - From: Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>

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