New Drive showing only 1.7TB instead of 4TB

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Noah,

On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 09:54, Noah <noah-list at enabled.com> wrote:

> HI there list people,
>
> I have a New drive and the fdisk is showing ~1.7TB.  The drive is 4TB.
> How can I get a single 4TB partition on the entire drive?
>

I am no expert in this field (my biggest drive is 2TB) but I believe the
issue is with the type of partition table you have.

If you can only get partitions up to 2TB in size, it is probably because
you have an old-style MBR type partition table. Having a GPT (GUID
Partition Table)  should fix this.

Note that you should backup any important data first.

To create a GPT partition table, see this article:-
https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/08/2tb-gtp-parted/

For more details, see this article:-
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning

BW,


Ian


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