Linux fdisk and the 2TB limit
Hold on Cowboy
This blog post is pretty old. Be careful with the information you find in here. It's likely dead, dying, or wildly inaccurate.
Running out of space on the backup drive, I added another 1.5TB drive to the existing one to hold the company backup files. We do rsync style snapshots with a linux server and it was at 80% capacity. So I added another Seagate SATA to the simple Hardware RAID SATA card in the machine. Everything went well. Ran fdisk
to partition the drive, ran mke2fs -f /dev/hde1
to format in EXT3 format. After that was done the
df -hcommand showed only 2TB. That’s odd, I know the filesystem takes some drive space, but not 1TB of it.
So after a little investigating you need to use a program called
partedfor drives >2TB. The commands are as follows
parted /dev/hde1
Once in the parted command prompt then you can run these commands on the new drive.
mktable gpt mklabel mkpart primary 0 100% quit
You can now format with
mke2fs -j /dev/hde1
References: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-901368.html