<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Hrm.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">For the 4TB disk in the same system (which has been working for years), <span style="font-family:monospace">fdisk -l</span> reports:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace">Disk /dev/sdc: 3.7 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors<br>Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes<br>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes<br>Disklabel type: gpt<br>Disk identifier: 88C7DF91-CD80-4EEB-AC6B-110119B04DD4<br><br>Device Start End Sectors Size Type<br>/dev/sdc1 2048 7814035455 7814033408 3.7T Linux filesystem</span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div>Wondering if that helps. Starting to wonder if it's the firmware on the USB external chassis.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 00:42, Nicholas Krause <<a href="mailto:xerofoify@gmail.com">xerofoify@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Your using fdisk right. There is a version for GPT disks
called gdisk and you may want to try<br>
that or a GUI program like gparted.<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">Tried that. gdisk also reports 2TB
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While its stating that you have a sector size of 512 bytes which is
odd. Most gpt drives should<br>
be 4096bytes per sector, I just double checked. So even if its gpt
it may be doing it based on<br>
issues with other things, not sure if the computer or device your
using at a firmware level<br>
supports 4K sectors but it seems maybe that should be checked. Its a
common problem<br>
with larger drives, I've never run into it as the systems I have are
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