fdisk problems with partitions over 2TB
Partitioned a 4.2TB volume with fdisk, created a file system and all I got for was a lousy 2TB. WTF? fdisk man page explains:
fdisk doesn’t understand GUID Partition Table (GPT) and it is not designed for large partitions. In particular case use more advanced GNU parted(8).
Ok, parted it is then..
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | # aptitude install parted # parted /dev/xvde (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) mkpart primary 0 -1 (parted) print Model: Xen Virtual Block Device (xvd) Disk /dev/xvde: 4548GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 4548GB 4548GB primary # mkfs.xfs /dev/xvde1 -f # mount /dev/xvde1 /mnt/disk2 # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 247G 58G 177G 25% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 28K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm /dev/xvdc1 2.0T 1.1T 939G 55% /mnt/disk1 /dev/xvde1 4.2T 4.2M 4.2T 1% /mnt/disk2 |
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