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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Can't I use a 3TB disk?</H1>
<B>Marc Paré</B>
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<I>Sat Feb 23 22:30:22 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>Le 2013-02-22 17:28, David W. Hodgins a écrit :
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</I>>><i> I am just curious, as I was looking at 2TB drives yesterday. Not that I
</I>>><i> am planning on buying a 3TB drive, but, is there a reason why Mageia
</I>>><i> can't partition a 3TB drive?
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</I>><i> The sector numbers in the partition table in the dos style mbr are limited
</I>><i> to 32 bits. With 512 byte sectors, that means sectors past 2TB cannot be
</I>><i> specified.
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</I>><i> Using drives larger than 2TB either means using larger sectors, or a
</I>><i> different style of partitioning, such as a GUID Partition Table, aka
</I>><i> gpt.
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</I>><i> <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record</A>
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table</A>
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</I>><i> The partitioning tool used in the installer, diskdrake currently only
</I>><i> works with dos style mbr partitioning.
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</I>><i> Regards, Dave Hodgins
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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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