On 14.07.2013 11:51, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Thomas Schneider" <c.monty@xxxxxx> > > > On my new HDD WD30EZRX I created a GPT partition table and formatted > > it with XFS. > > Then I put some data (approx. 2.4TB) on that new partition. > > > > However, after restarting the system the disk is identified of size > > 2TB only. > > knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo fdisk -l > > Stop! Wait a minute! Stop it, boy! > > (Sorry; Meat Loaf flashback. :-) > > You're looking at that partition table with fdisk, *which doesn't understand > GPT partition tables*; it's amazing it didn't complain louder. It does. At least the version i got does: ... WARNING: The size of this disk is 3.0 TB (3000592982016 bytes). DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes larger than (2199023255040 bytes) for 512-byte sectors. Use parted(1) and GUID partition table format (GPT). ... And that's not even the most recent version: fdisk -v fdisk (util-linux 2.20.1) But in the OP-Case the kernel appeared to reported the disc as 2TB, which could be seen in the fdisk output. -- Matthias _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
