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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Matthew,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To see a storage device >2TB it must be initialized using the GUID partition table (GPT) scheme and
<u>not</u> the MBR (Master Book Record) scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You cannot use fdisk to partition the disk as it sometimes creates misaligned partitions. Boot with a Linux CD or USB and run (where X is what device your disk
was recognized. This example creates an XFS partition but you can use mkfs.ext3, mkfs.ext4, mkfs.ntfs or whatever):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">sudo parted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(parted) select /dev/sdX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(parted) mklabel gpt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(parted) mkpart primary 0% 100%<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdX1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Now you should have a 4 TB XFS file system on /dev/sdX1 to install your OS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">David (Doc) Brown<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rolls-Royce Electronics Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cinlug [mailto:cinlug-bounces@lists.cinlug.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Matthew Lawson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 03, 2017 9:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cinlug@lists.cinlug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> HP Z800 w/ 2.2TB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I bought a HP Z800 for home use, including NAS, VM's, sandbox, etc. To my chagrin, I have discovered that it will only recognize a max HDD size of 2.2TB. I've gathered that it is used by too-old firmware. However, a member of the HP forum
board successfully installed a 3TB drive under Windows, so it seems technically feasible. He recommended updating the Intel controller driver, but HP does not offer a controller driver for Linux derivatives. I'm loathe to make unnecessary changes because I
don't want to make anything worse. <br>
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Sooooo...does anyone know how to overcome the 2.2TB threshold?<br>
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FWIW, HP sold this workstation as RHEL-ready, so it is compatible with Linux. <br>
<br>
This is virgin territory for me, so please use monosyllabic words and type slowly.<br>
<br>
System Specs: Z800, dual-Xeons, 24GB ram, Ubuntu 16.04 from a USB drive (persistent) and one 3TB WD Red<br>
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TIA,<br>
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~ML<o:p></o:p></p>
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