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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?</H1>
    <B>AL13N</B> 
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    <I>Sat Feb 23 08:55:35 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>Op zaterdag 23 februari 2013 01:59:32 schreef andre999:
&gt;<i> Johnny A. Solbu a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; On Saturday 23. February 2013 05.38, Norman Carver wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; People should also know that many 3TB drives now have 4k sectors
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; How can one tell if this is the case?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> fdisk -l /dev/sd*
</I>&gt;<i> gives both the logical and physical sector sizes at the top (along with
</I>&gt;<i> other global info), before listing the partitions.
</I>&gt;<i> It gives this info for both mbr and gpt partition tables.
</I>&gt;<i> But it only lists the partitions for an mbr partition table.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> gdisk -l /dev/sd*
</I>&gt;<i> gives the logical sector size at the top.  (It might not indicate a
</I>&gt;<i> differing physical sector size, but in any case it is the logical size
</I>&gt;<i> which counts for OS addressing.  The physical size is explicitly
</I>&gt;<i> indicated inside gdisk.)
</I>&gt;<i> It lists the partitions for both mbr and gpt tables (and maybe other
</I>&gt;<i> formats).
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Note : sd* should be sda or sdb or ... , according to the disk in question.
</I>
when i installed on a 3TB disk, on mga3, i used the rescue to partition it 
with gdisk, and after that, i did the install

those cheap 3TB seagates are good imho i actually bought 6 of those for about 
100EUR/piece
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