Keith Keller wrote: > On 2012-09-13, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Tony Molloy wrote: >>> >>> I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need to >>> partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put ext4 >>> filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. ( if I can >>> get to the site I could use gparted ) >>> >>> Now fdisk doesn't understand GPT partition tables and pat >> >> You have to use either parted or gparted, and as much as I prefer >> command line, parted is user hostile; gparted's just the gui on top >> of parted. It works fine, AFAIK, though I've only used it on 3TB drives. > > I've used parted on 10TB and up disk arrays with no problems. I > wouldn't call parted's CLI "hostile", but I would definitely suggest > having the docs close by. Hostile: I start parted up with -optimum, and it still doesn't set the default start for a partition by itself, nor does it suggest in any way, shape, or form what it wants you to do. You have to google to find out. mark