[Mageia-dev] fdisk or gparted

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 09:25:43 CEST 2012


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Richard Couture <rrc at linuxcabal.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to install MGA-2 on an 8TB logical drive provided by an lsi logic
> mega raid.
>
> is the install using fdisk or gparted to partiton the disk now-a-days???

The installer uses it's own code.
If you want GPT it will use libparted (but is not able to initialize a
blank GPT disk, only to add/remove partitions)

> FDisk won't deal with more that 2TB
>
> I went to the <ctl><alt><F2> console and can not find parted, only fdisk...


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