| Create Partitions bigger than 2TB in Linux |
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| Sunday, 16 October 2011 | |
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When using default tool in Linux to create partitions (which is fdisk) we will notice we cannot create partitions bigger than 2TB. For example let's say we have a 3TB hard drive and we want to create a single partition. We can acomplish that with parted and GPT. Our drive is: Disk /dev/sdc: 3000.6 GB, 3000592982016 bytes So we will enter in parted command line tool: parted /dev/sdc There we create a new disklabel of gpt type: mklabel gpt # this will be run inside parted command line tool Then we create the partition: mkpart primary ext4 1 3000.00GB # this will run inside parted command line tool. Then we create a file system on /dev/sdc1: mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1 Tips ------ To print/display partitions using parted run from parted command line: p # or print To delete a partition using parted run from parted command line: rm part_no # where part_no is the partition number |
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