suse 12 doesn't see my full disk space
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hi experts
I have four 1TB HDD in raid 5 configuration. That means I get 3TB out of them. But when I install SUSE 12, I only see 2.73TB for dev/sda and dev/sda1 I see only 2TB. Why is that? I am losing almost 1TB there for some reason. I have attached a screenshot of what I see. thanks |
2 TB is the largest disk size supported by the old-style MBR disk label. For larger disk sizes you must use GPT. In addition, you must not use software such as fdisk that does not support GPT.
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2.73 is due to TiB vs TB (base 2 vs base 10). 3 TB = 3000000000000 bytes = 2.728 TiB
The 2 TB partition is probably because you didn't switch the partition table over to GPT before creating sda1. |
BEFORE !!!! you get to far
the VERY last opensuse 12 -- 12.3 hits End Of Life in 18 DAYS or is this the non free and very NEW " SUSE Enterprise Linux (Server / Desktop) 12 " https://www.suse.com/products/server/how-to-buy/ and https://www.suse.com/products/desktop/ https://www.suse.com/products/desktop/how-to-buy/ for the now AVERAGE large size drive 3 TB and UP you can NOT use a dos table use the new GPT allocation table PS "fdisk -l" will not be able to read that drive use the current Gparted live cd and reformat the drive as above TB VS. TiB ( 1000 VS. 1024 ) the manufactures love "bleeping" people off |
For pure GPT partition you need a uefi enabled system. The old BIOS has 2 terabyte limit.
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thanks guys for your help. switching over to UEFI and will see.
Just out of curiousity, I guess I would have to reinstall the OS entirely? |
It looks like / and /home are on sdb, so I don't know why you would need to reinstall the OS? What's on sda? And why are you switching to UEFI?
You can switch a disk to GPT in 5 seconds Code:
parted /dev/sda |
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