Re: Truncated Filesystem

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 at 8:49pm, Benjamin Carr wrote

> > What kind of partition table is it?  MS-DOS partition tables have a 2 TB
> > limit.
>
> Hadn't thought of that, doesn't look good.
> -Ben
>
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc1
> benc's password:

Issue number one -- don't use fdisk, as it doesn't support devices that 
big.  Use parted instead:

parted /dev/sdc
mklabel gpt
mkpart primary ext2 0 11TB
quit

where you may have to sub some other value for the "11TB" in the mkpart 
line -- I forget the exact syntax.

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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