Is there and problem (in Linux) mounting a 3 TB hard drive? This question was put to me by a friend this morning. I can only think of possible filesystem issues, but otherwise have no hands-on experience. As a detail (which may or may not be important), this drive would not be an operating system drive that's initiated during boot; it would be a data drive. (Again, I wouldn't think that should be important either way.) We will appreciate any input you have time to share. Thanks.
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I have a 2 TB hard drive and haven't had any problems with it. Ive had it for a couple years and use it as a data drive to store music. From what I remember, I simply plugged it in, added it to fstab and it was ready to go. -
Yes, and actually this new 3 TB hard drive will be replacing an existing 2 TB hard drive.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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you will have to use GUID formating . and you might need EFI for hdd over 2TB.Mark Your Solved Issues [SOLVED]
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Yeah, with the 2 TB limit on MBRs, that calls for a GPT.
Any other experience or issues with this that you guys see?An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Mounting a 3 TB HDD?
"That's a barn! I'll never fill it up!", said a client of mine after I installed his first 5MB HD on his IBM PC. He filled it, IIRC, in six months, and I replaced it with a 10MB, then a year later with a couple of 20MB's, then he died.
Edit: He died of heart failure, not HD failure!
He had only an eighth grade education but he was one of the smartest men I ever knew.
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So we conclude then that to use and mount the 4 TB HDD (in say Kubuntu, Mint, Ubuntu), you just need a GPT on it?An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Yeah, but as GG pointed out replacing hard drives will eventually kill you. I'd be careful.Originally posted by Qqmike View Post
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Good point.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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LOL wizard10000,
Mike: In case it's a factor, you can use GPT formatting even on a computer that has BIOS that doesn't support it, but an issue appears only if you are going to boot from the GPT drive.
Grub won't install to a GPT drive on a legacy BIOS computer so you have to make a GRUB partition that's 512kb or more and use type EF02 (BIOS boot partition). Mine looks like this:
Code:[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]stuart@office:~$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda[/COLOR] GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 512242D7-F3BB-4EA1-914B-CEDA513DAB26 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries Total free space is 7 sectors (3.5 KiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 34 2047 1007.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition 2 2048 419430400 200.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem 3 419430408 1953525134 731.5 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem [/FONT]
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Thanks, oshunluvr.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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