[Novalug] Drive Partitioning

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Fri Nov 22 16:03:52 EST 2013


Are you sure about that limit?  I have the whole 3tb (actually 2.7)
available with an MS-Dos label.

Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver@gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the partitioner?
> 
> if you use fdisk and put an msdos label on the disk there is a 2TB limit
> 
> what does parted show?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dan Arico <dan_arico@aricosystems.com>wrote:
> 
> > I've been using external drives in a USB to SATA adapters for backing
> > up my work. Setting them up hasn't been much of a problem until now.
> >
> > I just got a 3TB Western Digital Red drive and I've run into a
> > roadblock. I think it has something to do with the sector size on this
> > drive. It was intended for use in a NAS, but that's not what I'm trying
> > to do.
> >
> > When I bring up the partitioner, it's showing a bit over 750GB
> > available. I don't want to trash the drive. Can someone give me a
> > pointer?
> >
> > Dan Arico
> >
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