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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/29/19 12:48 AM, Evan Leibovitch
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4TB disk in the same system (which has been working for
years), <span style="font-family:monospace">fdisk -l</span>
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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>
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Device Start End Sectors Size Type<br>
/dev/sdc1 2048 7814035455 7814033408 3.7T Linux
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Wondering if that helps. Starting to wonder if it's the
firmware on the USB external chassis.<br>
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Maybe as those numbers look better on the physical side. Try seeing
if connecting it directly<br>
to a open SATA port and see if that gets you 512 bytes for logical
and 4096 for physical. I've<br>
suspecting that may be it based on the internal drive you proved
sector size numbers.<br>
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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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class="gmail_default">Tried that. gdisk also
reports 2TB and refuses to create any partition
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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 almost all UEFI or later.<br>
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Nick<br>
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<div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch, <span
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