Timeline for add additional msdos based partition using maximal amount of space
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| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:39 | history | edited | mathewJohn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:33 | comment | added | Bodo | Please edit your question and add all background information there. Please explain why you can't (or don't want to) switch to a GPT partition table. Maybe someone else knows more details about using the maximum size with a msdos partition. I would switch to GPT in your case. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:23 | comment | added | Bodo | I think with 512 bytes sector size there is a limit of about 4TB for the disk size, so you might not be able to use the whole disk with a msdos type partition table. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:17 | comment | added | mathewJohn |
@Bodo Thanks a lot, so to use the remaining space of the disk /dev/sdb I would need to create additional 3 partitions each with 2TB space because of msdos (in case I don't want to convert the partition table)?
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| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:12 | comment | added | Bodo |
You can only have either a partition table of type msdos or a partition table of type gpt, so if you want to add "a GPT partition" you have to convert the partition table. See also unix.stackexchange.com/q/289389/330217
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| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:04 | comment | added | mathewJohn |
@Bodo no. I just want to create a new partition under dev/sdb using gpt as partition table type. This new partition should use GPT so I can use the additional space (2023GB-8619GB) as size for this additional partition.
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| Mar 2, 2020 at 13:00 | comment | added | Bodo | GPT is not a partition type but a partition table type. Do you want to convert the partition table? see serverfault.com/q/963178 | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 12:39 | history | asked | mathewJohn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |