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From: "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 17:15:09
Message-Id: nnlbm5$n8$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected by Daniel Frey
1 Hi Daniel,
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3 thanks for your response.
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5 Daniel Frey wrote:
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7 [snip]
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9 > I can only think of two reasons, the kernel on the livecd doesn't
10 > support GPT (which is unlikely)
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12 That would be really strange. However, how can I prove it?
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14 > or you're booting a 32-bit kernel live
15 > USB. I am reasonably certain for drives > 2TB a 64-bit kernel and GPT
16 > are required.
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18 No, I've always chosen 64-bit kernels. I wonder what is so special about
19 this partition ...
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21 Cheers,
22 Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@×××.de>