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Some hints on fdisk and large disks (> 2TB)
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Note that fdisk only supports legacy partition tables.
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Legacy partition tables (like DOS) use 32 bit LBA addressing,
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which means that you can only address partitions with a starting
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sector and a size with a maximum of 2**32 sectors = 2TB.
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This means you can not create partitions that are greater than 2TB
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with fdisk!
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If you want to use partition sizes above this limit, you need to use
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GUID Partition Tables (GPT) which use 64 bit LBA addressing.
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They are supported by parted.
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