John Newbigin wrote: > You can not have a DOS partition larger than 2Tb. parted will create > one and tell the kernel about the size which works.... until you > reboot and then the partition is 2Tb smaller than it should be because > the partition table can not store the MSB of your partition size. > > The solution is to use LVM or GPT partitions. > Right. The procedure should look something like this: /sbin/parted /dev/yourdevice (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/etherd/yourdevice: 0kB - 3001GB Disk label type: gpt (parted) mkpart primary 0 3001G (parted) quit Now build the filesystem. I normally use: mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/yourdevice (tap foot for a few minutes) Now it should mount normally and you can uncomment out the entry for that device in /etc/fstab. Hope that helps. Cheers,