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jzoudavy 12-16-2014 04:15 PM

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

smallpond 12-16-2014 04:25 PM

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.

suicidaleggroll 12-16-2014 04:25 PM

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.

John VV 12-16-2014 08:30 PM

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

veerain 12-17-2014 02:38 AM

For pure GPT partition you need a uefi enabled system. The old BIOS has 2 terabyte limit.

jzoudavy 12-17-2014 09:01 AM

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?

suicidaleggroll 12-17-2014 10:26 AM

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
mklabel gpt

Then just delete and re-create the partition, again using parted or gparted, not fdisk.


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