Hard drive recognition for Slackware 15.0.
I recently acquired a 4 TB internal hard drive for my desktop PC, the problem is that when I went to install Slackware 15.0 (after partitioning it with cfdisk), the part that says to select the target drive only saw a 2 TB device, or is Slackware 15.0 simply unable to recognize any hard disk greater than a 2 TB hard drive?
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fdisk and cfdisk using MBR partitioning have an hard limit at 2 Tb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record if you want to make a wider partition you should use GPT partitioning with gdisk and parted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table |
This is a BIOS/MBR partition limitation, not a Slackware limitation. For a disk this size you must use a GPT partitioning scheme (use gdisk). I suggest the reading below:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/whatsgpt.html |
So would I be correct to assume that I should format my hard drive that way before trying to install Slackware 15.0?
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I format my disks using GPT from the Slackware installer so as long as you select that during partitioning you should be fine.
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cgdisk is also a option for partitioning using GPT.
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