Problem partitioning 4TB SSD Drive -- Using MX Linux
by LinWinux from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6H0Z1)
Hi everyone,
Pictures included ....
I recently purchased a new 4TB Samsung Evo 2.5" Solid State Drive. My current setup is a 2TB SSD Drive, using MBR with 4 Partitions. One for System, one for Data, one for Data Backups, and finally one for a Swap File. I have tried repeatedly to have the 4TB Drive partitioned and formatted but I just seem to run into nothing but problems. Eventually I managed to install GPT on it but wasn't able to go any further while using Gparted. Then I tried (after disconnecting/rebooting) using Gnome Disks in order to create the partitions. This actually worked to a degree i.e. creating the partitions which ended up as being unknown, so not usable.
Alright, so I go back to Gparted (after disconnecting/rebooting) to see if I might be able to format those non-working unknown partitions into ext4. Like I said the partitions with the proper sizes exist, they just appear to be unknown and so I can't use them. Tried formatting one of the larger partitions to ext4 and waited over 2 hours. The nice thing about Gparted is the fact that you can open up the working processes in order to see what's being done or where a problem is being encountered.
When you look at the images you'll see that the 4TB SSD drive has been recognized and that it contains 4 partitions. The partitions all have the correct size. The second and third image display the problems that I'm running into. There appears to be an issue with 64bit filesystem support not being enabled.
I don't understand how this can be?
To my knowledge the latest MX Linux Kernels all provide that support automatically?
So now I'm at a total loss as to what I should or can do to get those partitions to work?
I'm using an Intel NUC with a quad core processor, 8 threads, 32 GB RAM, and HD 655 graphics. My hardware is not the problem ... just my limited knowledge of properly partitioning that 4TB drive.
Using the console is not an issue, just not my first preferred choice.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
.
EDIT: Tried to submit 3 images from gparted, sizes all under 256 kb, but received message that invalid post was being submitted. Huh? I'm using the same system that I've been using for the past 2 years with all of the same hardware and same web browsers. I don't have a clue what's going on? I'm using VPN but that's always been the case for me and the selected VPN location is also the same as always before.
Pictures included ....
I recently purchased a new 4TB Samsung Evo 2.5" Solid State Drive. My current setup is a 2TB SSD Drive, using MBR with 4 Partitions. One for System, one for Data, one for Data Backups, and finally one for a Swap File. I have tried repeatedly to have the 4TB Drive partitioned and formatted but I just seem to run into nothing but problems. Eventually I managed to install GPT on it but wasn't able to go any further while using Gparted. Then I tried (after disconnecting/rebooting) using Gnome Disks in order to create the partitions. This actually worked to a degree i.e. creating the partitions which ended up as being unknown, so not usable.
Alright, so I go back to Gparted (after disconnecting/rebooting) to see if I might be able to format those non-working unknown partitions into ext4. Like I said the partitions with the proper sizes exist, they just appear to be unknown and so I can't use them. Tried formatting one of the larger partitions to ext4 and waited over 2 hours. The nice thing about Gparted is the fact that you can open up the working processes in order to see what's being done or where a problem is being encountered.
When you look at the images you'll see that the 4TB SSD drive has been recognized and that it contains 4 partitions. The partitions all have the correct size. The second and third image display the problems that I'm running into. There appears to be an issue with 64bit filesystem support not being enabled.
I don't understand how this can be?
To my knowledge the latest MX Linux Kernels all provide that support automatically?
So now I'm at a total loss as to what I should or can do to get those partitions to work?
I'm using an Intel NUC with a quad core processor, 8 threads, 32 GB RAM, and HD 655 graphics. My hardware is not the problem ... just my limited knowledge of properly partitioning that 4TB drive.
Using the console is not an issue, just not my first preferred choice.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
.
EDIT: Tried to submit 3 images from gparted, sizes all under 256 kb, but received message that invalid post was being submitted. Huh? I'm using the same system that I've been using for the past 2 years with all of the same hardware and same web browsers. I don't have a clue what's going on? I'm using VPN but that's always been the case for me and the selected VPN location is also the same as always before.