On 31/01/14 10:50, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > > Tried to setup a 3TB disk using cfdisk and it failed silently. Suggest > that cfdisk is updated to work with current disks; 3 and 4 TB. At least > update the man page. partman is not on the production system and can't > be installed, don't know if it actually works with disks over 2TB.
partman?? > > gparted worked but it had to be installed first, it was not on the > system already. It is not on the base, minimum, system. Suggest that it > be put on the minimum system since it should work with whats out there > and these sizes will become more and more common. > > Saw quite a few web pages by people struggling with this. > > frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS > > Perhaps you conflate the limitations of DOS (MBR) partitions with GPT (GUID)? The former has a 2.somethingGiB limit. GParted is just a gui for parted. IMO cfdisk is not a great choice due to sector sizes and starting sector (can cause problems with GRUB) parted or gdisk will happily partition large drives, fdisk not so much. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52eaf9a4.5060...@gmail.com
