3TB Disk on Linux
June 6, 2014
I have installed a 3TB disk on Linux, but fdisk isn't up to the job of creating partitions on it.
I need to use parted
# parted /dev/sdc GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/sdc Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) mkpart pri 1 -1 (parted) quit Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
Then you can create a file system on it:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1
Update
If you get an error around "partitions not properly aligned", you'll need to do the partition create in a slightly different way. See http://superuser.com/questions/349887/gnu-parted-how-to-deal-with-the-error-about-proper-aligment-of-partitions
