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..
# 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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