On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 15:18 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26. September 2012. 22.08.50 George R Goffe wrote: > >> I had tried what you suggested but the system still reports 801.6 GB. > >> > >> I have seen some mention of firmware problems but the asus.com web site > >> seems to have firmware carefully hidden. > >> > >> What are your thoughts? > > [snip] > >> fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > > > The fdisk utility is known to not work properly on devices larger than 3TB. > > You want to use parted (or some gui version like gparted) to create a new > > partition table. > > > I wish that were not the case, but AFAIK this is true, I thought it worked up to > and including 3TB and failed after that, but there are issues. > > Note: you may get better results with fdisk turning off compatibility (c) and on > physical block addressing (u). Both commands from memory. Check that the > physical sector size is correct, presumably it's 4k. And in case, when you > create the filesystem, be sure to use appropriate options for the sector size, etc. > > You may have to learn partd, which is seriously different. > > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot Why not gdisk ? http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
