[Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?

Sat Feb 23 22:30:22 CET 2013

Le 2013-02-22 17:28, David W. Hodgins a écrit :
+>
+>> I am just curious, as I was looking at 2TB drives yesterday. Not that I
+>> am planning on buying a 3TB drive, but, is there a reason why Mageia
+>> can't partition a 3TB drive?
+>
+> The sector numbers in the partition table in the dos style mbr are limited
+> to 32 bits.  With 512 byte sectors, that means sectors past 2TB cannot be
+> specified.
+>
+> Using drives larger than 2TB either means using larger sectors, or a
+> different style of partitioning, such as a GUID Partition Table, aka
+> gpt.
+>
+> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
+> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
+>
+> The partitioning tool used in the installer, diskdrake currently only
+> works with dos style mbr partitioning.
+>
+> Regards, Dave Hodgins
+>
+
+Thanks for the info and thanks to all of the rest of the people and 
+answers after this as well.
+
+It's nice to know.
+
+While I think of it. Is Mageia considering doing anything about this? I 
+saw 3TB and 4TB disks on the shelves.
+
+Marc
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