Not able to format a 4TB drive on ubuntu

[Noah]

Hi there,

I am still at a loss here of how to format a 4TB drive on ubuntu.  Ive 
re-verified by looking at the drive that it is a 4TB drive printed on 
the label.  What am I doing wrong?

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS"

I am following this tutorial: 
https://kenfavors.com/code/how-to-format-a-3tb-drive-on-ubuntu/

Here is the output.

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$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0    7:0    0 72.4M  1 loop /snap/lxd/17147
loop1    7:1    0 96.6M  1 loop /snap/core/9804
loop2    7:2    0   55M  1 loop /snap/core18/1880
loop3    7:3    0 68.6M  1 loop /snap/lxd/17280
loop4    7:4    0 55.3M  1 loop /snap/core18/1885
loop5    7:5    0 10.1M  1 loop /snap/kubectl/1612
loop6    7:6    0  9.8M  1 loop /snap/helm/272
loop7    7:7    0 29.9M  1 loop /snap/snapd/8790
loop8    7:8    0 97.1M  1 loop /snap/core/9993
loop10   7:10   0  9.8M  1 loop /snap/helm/276
loop11   7:11   0 10.1M  1 loop /snap/kubectl/1580
loop12   7:12   0 30.3M  1 loop /snap/snapd/9279
sda      8:0    0  1.9T  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0  512M  0 part /boot/efi
└─sda2   8:2    0  1.9T  0 part /
sdb      8:16   0  1.7T  0 disk
$ sudo parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 3.3
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) mklabel gpt
Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdb will be destroyed and all 
data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
Yes/No? yes
(parted) unit TB
(parted) mkpart primary 0.00TB 3.00TB
Error: The location 3.00TB is outside of the device /dev/sdb.
(parted)

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Cheers