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Help - adding a 3TB disk to file server
Hi,
I am trying to add a Western Digital Caviar® 3TB WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 drive to my Turnkey Linux File Server running turnkey-fileserver-11.3-lucid-x86.
(The disk was formatted in one GPT/NTFS partition when i put it in the File Server)
When I go to Webmin-->Hardware-->Partitions on local disks it does show the 3TB drive as sdb but I am unable to create a partition on it. 'Add a partition seems to do nothing.
Can anyone help me?
Regards Mort
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Reply 2boot into gparted and partition drive as GPT with one ext4 partition covering whole disk.
Mount the partition in Webmin-->System-->Disk and Network Filesystems (do NOT use Partitions on Local Disks in Webmin. Does not support large disks)
hdparm -S 2 /dev/sdb (which spins down the WD30EZRX after ~10 mins)
Set the hdparm command to run at startup in "Create a new bootup and shutdown action"
Update: Booted the system on a Gparted livecd and partitioned the disk as GPT with one 3tb ext4 partition. Back in to Turnkey Linux the disk now shows as a 2TB disk..... ??