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I just bought a 6TB HD from WD and I cannot make bigger partitions than 2TB. I looked up in some tutorials like this one, but I still have the problem that fdisk, parted and lsblk display that there are only 2 TB space on the harddisk without partitions.

For example: 

(parted) print                                                            

Model: ATA WDC WD60EFRX-68L (scsi)  
Disk /dev/sdi: 2199GB  
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B  
Partition Table: gpt  


GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: 
MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; 
using GPT. Disk /dev/sdi: 4294967294 sectors, 2.0 TiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes 
Disk identifier (GUID): 5347B4F4-DFDD-446B-B2E2-8E8D66886DEC Partition table holds up to 128 entries 
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 4294967260 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries 
Total free space is 4294967227 sectors (2.0 TiB)

Does somebody know where the problem could be?
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.

George Udosen
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metty
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Use GPT partitioning instead of dos to enable partition size to be larger than 2T.

ubfan1
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I found a solution on my problem without knowing exactly where the problem was. (Link to the German forum). Seams that there are multiple controllers for hard-disks on my Mainboard, and the one that the HD was connected, did not support bigger hard-disks than 2TB. Fortunately the other controller, supported bigger sizes. So with changing the connectors it was possible for me, to use all hard-disks in the full range. Thank you for your help!

metty
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