Now let’s verify the new partition is mounted as expected by running df command, as you see down here: df -ah | grep home2 Then issue this command to manually mount it by reading /etc/fstab content: mount -a Now let’s create the directory: mkdir /mnt/home2 On this example I used “/mnt/home2” as mount point, but you can use any directory you need. Then add this line at the end: /dev/sdd1 /mnt/home2 ext4 defaults 0 2 Use tune2fs -c or -i to ~]#Īdd the new 4TB partition to fstab so the system will try to mount it automatically after every reboot: nano -w /etc/fstab This filesystem will be automatically checked every 20 mounts orġ80 days, whichever comes first. Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Sample outputs: Model: ATA TOSHIBA MD04ACA4 (scsi)

Now let’s see if the system can detect the new partition by printing the new disk information, enter “print”: (parted) print Now set the default disk unit to TB, issue the next command: (parted) unit TBĬreate the new 4TB partition: mkpart primary 0.00TB 4.00TB Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdd will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Now let’s create a new GPT disk label, issue this command: mklabel gpt Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

We will use the parted command as you see below: parted /dev/sdd How can I create a 4TB partition size on Linux without fdisk? Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes Run fdisk -l to check out your disk device name, for example: fdisk -l Days ago I needed to format a large 4TB drive on Linux, and same as other times I knew I couldn’t run a simple fdisk command to create the new partition, as fdisk won’t work on drives larger than 2TB on Linux. This is what I did to format and mount a driver larger than 2TB on Linux, follow my step by step tutorial.

Linux format partition ext4