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I just eat saltine crackers and play with my 3TB hdd. hehe
its an 3tb external HDD all formatted ext4 no partitions.
But yeah -- I'd go GPT just cuz -- only added that as an option.
but I do think one can still split it and get 2TB each even tough it is not formatted to 2TB my 3TB isn't really even 3TB
It shows it has one partition - /dev/sdc1.
But wait, my saltine cracker-eating friend. Are you telling me that the drive in question is MBR partitioned with its single partition 2.73 TiB? Seriously, how did you manage that? Can you provide the fdisk -l or parted -l output for the disk in question?
Glad to hear it. Since you're using GPT, note that if you ever use it as a boot disk, be aware that you will have to create an EFI System Partition or a BIOS Boot Partition, depending on whether you're booting it from EFI or BIOS.
But wait, my saltine cracker-eating friend. Are you telling me that the drive in question is MBR partitioned with its single partition 2.73 TiB? Seriously, how did you manage that? Can you provide the fdisk -l or parted -l output for the disk in question?
yeah I was wondering how to make sure of that -- hold on --
oops its been awhile sense I formatted this hdd - eating my crackers now
Code:
Model: WD My Passport 0827 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB ext4 3TB
I could have sworn it was MBR -- though I did play with it a while back -- makes me wonder if I did have it all one drive in MBR ---
because it was and I remember moving everything off it just to see that GPT was all about and it was because of GPT more that 4 logical partitions - and I said self - I am not going to be spiting it up anyways and just reformatted it keeping it GPT and put everything back on it again.
makes me want to see if I can move everything off it again and switch it back to MBR just to see -- for myself.
Thanks BW. You're using 4096-byte (Advanced Format) instead of the typical 512-byte logical sectors. That means that MBR can cope with up to 16TiB (the limit is actually 2^32 sectors), so you most probably were using it with MBR.
thanks bw. You're using 4096-byte (advanced format) instead of the typical 512-byte logical sectors. That means that mbr can cope with up to 16tib (the limit is actually 2^32 sectors), so you most probably were using it with mbr.
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