Not able to format a 4TB drive on ubuntu

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 17:49 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> I suppose there's at least a chance it's a controller issue? 

If the disk is in an enclosure (or you are attaching the disk to an
older computer), that's a good possibility, especially with USB
enclosures. Some enclosures cannot handle large disks. See if you can
borrow a known-good 4TB disk; you won't need to write to it, you will
just be attaching it to make sure that it gets detected accurately.

I can't see why lsblk would get it wrong; it just reports what the
hardware reports.

It's also possible that the disk has been (fraudulently?) mislabelled.
If it's a brand-name disk (Seagate, WD etc) you can usually check the
serial number online.

Regards, K.

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