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Partitions And FileSystems

Partition a disk greater then 4TB with parted command

First of all read manual

# man parted

or from here http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html

  • Start parted

    # parted -a optimal /dev/sdc
    

  • Verify if you are using your correct disk in my case /dev/sdc ! Using /dev/sdc

  • Make a new partition table GPT type ** Create a new GPT partition table

    (parted)  mklabel
    New disk label type?  gpt 
    Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdc will be destroyed and 
    all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
    Yes/No?  yes
    

  • Make a new partition to fill all space on disk

(parted)  mkpart primary ext4 0% 100% 
  • Show what you done
(parted)  print