On 3/6/2013 12:22 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
AFAIK you need to use a GPT for partitions with >2TB ...
you need GPT to partition devices larger than 2TB, regardless of the parittion size.
me, I use parted....
# parted /dev/sdc "label gpt" # parted /dev/sdc -a none "mkpart primary 512s -1s"
to make a single full disk partition that starts at sector 512, which is 256K bytes, which is usually a decent boundary for SSDs, large raids, and other such devices.