While I had my server open to mount the WD (formerly external) drive, I threw in the two 1.5Tb (!) drives I’d brought back from the US … yep, time to start regularly backing up all the machines sitting around the house.<\/p>\n
GPartEd refused to create 1.5Tb partitions (kept getting the error “a partition cannot have a length of -1 sectors”).\u00c2\u00a0 Setting the disk label to GPT rather than MSDOS (as suggested here<\/a>) didn’t do the trick.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, what worked was a combination of cfdisk and mke2fs.\u00c2\u00a0 In my case (assuming \/dev\/sde):<\/p>\n Finally, to get the volume ID (for ID-based mounting, which is always best!):<\/p>\n … and add it to the fstab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While I had my server open to mount the WD (formerly external) drive, I threw in the two 1.5Tb (!) drives I’d brought back from the US … yep, time to start regularly backing up all the machines sitting around the house. GPartEd refused to create 1.5Tb partitions (kept getting the error “a partition cannot … Continue reading “Creating Large Partitions on Ubuntu”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}sudo cfdisk \/dev\/sde<\/pre>\n
sudo mke2fs -j \/dev\/sde1<\/pre>\n
sudo vol_id \/dev\/sde1<\/pre>\n