[GTALUG] 10TB drive seen as a 2TB drive (twice?)

[Nicholas Krause]

On 12/29/19 12:19 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
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> On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 00:08, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com 
> <mailto:xerofoify at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Your using fdisk right. There is a version for GPT disks called
>     gdisk and you may want to try
>     that or a GUI program like gparted.
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> Tried that. gdisk also reports 2TB and refuses to create any partition 
> larger than that.
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> - Evan
While its stating that you have a sector size of 512 bytes which is odd. 
Most gpt drives should
be 4096bytes per sector, I just double checked. So even if its gpt it 
may be doing it based on
issues with other things, not sure if the computer or device your using 
at a firmware level
supports 4K sectors but it seems maybe that should be checked. Its a 
common problem
with larger drives, I've never run into it as the systems I have are 
almost all UEFI or later.

Nick

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