On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 08:13:16PM +1300, Alex King wrote: > > Hi, > > hi > > > I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian > (bookworm) on > > it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. >
I have a 16TB drive that is working properly. I reformatted the drive to the ext4 file system with default settings and it works great. Try to reformat the drive especially if the current format is FAT. > > > > How can I get Debian to use the full 8TB on this disk? > > It seems that the combination of MBR partition table and 512 byte blocks > limits you to partition sizes (and offsets) of roughly 2T, so it might > be this what's biting you: > > > https://superuser.com/questions/1393198/what-is-the-maximum-size-of-hard-drive-used-mbr-partitioning > > Cheers > -- > t > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
