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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/29/19 12:05 AM, Evan Leibovitch
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">It's not
an Xmas present as it was bought a few weeks ago, but I'm
trying to install a 10TB WD (Red Pro) disk and it's not
exactly going to plan.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">My
original plan was to put the disk into an external case, plug
it in to format and copy over files, then install it in the
case.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">The system
already has an SSD as /dec/sda, and two disks one of 3TB and
the other of 4TB, all working fine.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">When I
attach the external drive, lsblock and fdisk -l both report
TWO new drives, /dev/sdd and /dev/sde, both of 2TB size. I
went into set the disk from DOS to GPT but the size didn't
change;</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Now <span
style="font-family:monospace">fdisk -l </span>reports:</div>
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style="font-family:monospace">Disk /dev/sdd: 2 TiB,
2199023255040 bytes, 4294967295 sectors<br>
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disklabel type: gpt<br>
Disk identifier: 49FDD63D-6C95-46F0-B7B1-650038D8FB9B<br>
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Disk /dev/sde: 2 TiB, 2199023255040 bytes, 4294967295
sectors<br>
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes</span><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">And cat
/proc/scsi/scsi reports:<br>
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style="color:rgb(11,83,148);margin-left:40px"><span
style="font-family:monospace">Host: scsi10 Channel: 00 Id:
00 Lun: 00<br>
Vendor: WDC WD10 Model: 1KFBX-68R56N0 Rev: 0200<br>
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 04<br>
Host: scsi10 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01<br>
Vendor: WDC WD10 Model: 1KFBX-68R56NLUN1 Rev: 0200<br>
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 04<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"
class="gmail_default">The disk model is WD101KFBX and its <a
href="https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-hdd/data-sheet-western-digital-wd-red-pro-hdd-2879-800022.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">specs can be found here.</a><span
style="font-size:10.8333px;font-family:sans-serif"></span>
All of the online guides I've consulted say that the full
capacity of the drive should be visible once I switch it to
GPT mode.</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"
class="gmail_default">Is this a USB limitation? Or is there
something else I need to change? I've attached the output of <span
style="font-family:monospace">hwinfo</span> if that's any
help. <br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"
class="gmail_default">Thanks for any suggestions!<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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<div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch, <span
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style="font-size:12.8px">@evanleibovitch or </span><span
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