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On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 10:14 AM Vladimir Romanov <blueboar2@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you need not Fdisk, but GPT programs. |
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Correction: modern fdisk provided by util-linux supports |
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creating/modifying GPT disks, and emits a warning that MBR cannot be |
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used for disks over 2 TB. Just enter a "g" to switch to GPT mode. |
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That looks something like this: |
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% truncate -s 3T foo.img |
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% fdisk foo.img |
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Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.34). |
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Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. |
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Be careful before using the write command. |
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Device does not contain a recognized partition table. |
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The size of this disk is 3 TiB (3298534883328 bytes). DOS partition |
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table format cannot be used on drives for volumes larger than |
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2199023255040 bytes for 512-byte sectors. Use GUID partition table |
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format (GPT). |
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Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x9a0d6a8c. |
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Command (m for help): g |
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Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID: 0B1A00C7-7E53-9644-ACD1-F9A4B67A34AA). |
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