3T PartitIon with ext3

megoli · 11-07-2007, 10:26 AM

Hi All,

I'd like to create a partition with ext3 of 3T
I have been told that I should be using parted
but I cannot find any good "steps by steps" explanation on how to do it
I'm afraid that I'm a newbie on Linux ;-(

Thanking you in advance
Megoli

pixellany · 11-07-2007, 10:37 AM

I don't know what you mean by a "3T partition".

There are many partitioning tools for Linux. To partition a drive that is in use, it is better to use something on a liveCD---eg GParted. GUI tools such as this are pretty self-explanatory.

The standard command-line tool is fdisk. It is fast, and has a limited help function. "man fdisk" for details. For kicks I just downloaded parted--it looks to be more powerful than fdisk (note that GParted is the GUI front end for parted.)

megoli · 11-07-2007, 11:06 AM

Thaks for your help here

I believe that fdisk as limitation of 2Terabyte this is why I need to use Parted to overcome this limitation ;-(

Thanks for your help,
regards