[Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

AL13N alien at rmail.be
Sat Feb 23 22:36:55 CET 2013


Op zaterdag 23 februari 2013 16:30:22 schreef Marc Paré:
> Le 2013-02-22 17:28, David W. Hodgins a écrit :
> >> I am just curious, as I was looking at 2TB drives yesterday. Not that I
> >> am planning on buying a 3TB drive, but, is there a reason why Mageia
> >> can't partition a 3TB drive?
> > 
> > The sector numbers in the partition table in the dos style mbr are limited
> > to 32 bits.  With 512 byte sectors, that means sectors past 2TB cannot be
> > specified.
> > 
> > Using drives larger than 2TB either means using larger sectors, or a
> > different style of partitioning, such as a GUID Partition Table, aka
> > gpt.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
> > 
> > The partitioning tool used in the installer, diskdrake currently only
> > works with dos style mbr partitioning.
> > 
> > Regards, Dave Hodgins
> 
> Thanks for the info and thanks to all of the rest of the people and
> answers after this as well.
> 
> It's nice to know.
> 
> While I think of it. Is Mageia considering doing anything about this? I
> saw 3TB and 4TB disks on the shelves.
> 
> Marc

most of the new drives (as mention previously) will work with mbr too, since 
they have larger sector size.

i have no idea if it's possible to switch to GPT if it's needed.


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