[Techtalk] xfs repartitioning 2

[Miriam English]

Hi Meryll,

I didn't know about the 2TB limitation on size of hard drives. When I 
recently bought a 4TB hard drive I used gparted to make a single big 
ext4 partition. I didn't need to ask it to do anything special. It just 
simply worked.

As a bystander I'm finding this discussion very interesting. I hadn't 
intended to comment as I'm fairly ignorant on the topic. :)

Best wishes,

     - Miriam
P.S. Oops, I initially hit "reply" instead of sending to techtalk. Sorry 
james.


On 19/10/15 04:16, James Sutherland wrote:
 > Hi Meryll,
 >
 > Fortunately, the poster here happened to be doing something similar to
 > you: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160815
 >
 > (More specifically, Zzipo wanted a 3 Tb partition, and as you've
 > discovered the older MBR tools only support a maximum of 2.)
 >
 > This bit will create you one 3Tb partition named "media", the changes to
 > make four 20Tb ones instead should be obvious:
 >
 > $ parted /dev/sda
 > (parted) mklabel gpt
 > (parted) unit TB
 > (parted) mkpart primary 0.00TB 3.00TB
 > (parted) name 1 media
 > (parted) print
 > number     start     end     size file     system     name flags
 > 1    0.00TB    3.00TB    3.00TB        media
 > (parted) quit
 >
 >
 >
 > James.
 >
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