New Drive showing only 1.7TB instead of 4TB

[Volker Wysk]

Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2020, 10:42 +0100 schrieb 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.

Yes.

> 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/

You/Noah can just use the "gdisk" tool instead of "fdisk". It handles
MBR partition tables as well as GPT and two others. The interface is
much like fdisk's.

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


Bye,
Volker