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

Sat Feb 23 22:36:55 CET 2013

Op zaterdag 23 februari 2013 16:30:22 schreef Marc Paré:
+> 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
+
+most of the new drives (as mention previously) will work with mbr too, since 
+they have larger sector size.
+
+i have no idea if it's possible to switch to GPT if it's needed.
+