Dear Experts,
I have an opensuse machine which is currently working fine, and to which I need to install a new hard drive. I have purchased and installed a 4TB WD sata drive. I am having trouble sorting out how this drive needs to be partitioned (sizes, types, etc), and setup in fstab. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:36:01 +0000, ss 00 wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> I have an opensuse machine which is currently working fine, and to which
> I need to install a new hard drive. I have purchased and installed a 4TB
> WD sata drive. I am having trouble sorting out how this drive needs to
> be partitioned (sizes, types, etc), and setup in fstab. Any advice would
> be greatly appreciated.
How you partition it depends on your needs and plans for the drive.
If you’re going to use it as a data drive, then one partition is
sufficient.
In terms of setting it up in /etc/fstab, again, depends on what you
intend to do with it. You probably want to replace your existing /home
partition with it, but without knowing exactly what your thinking, it’s
hard to advise. 
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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ss 00 wrote:
> a 4TB WD sata drive.
You should have a GPT partition table, I can tell you that.
The partitions will mount on the fly with not edit to fstab, but if you
intend to use any partitions as part of your system, you need to
explain to us more details…
On 2013-07-29 03:36, ss 00 wrote:
>
> Dear Experts,
>
> I have an opensuse machine which is currently working fine, and to
> which I need to install a new hard drive. I have purchased and installed
> a 4TB WD sata drive. I am having trouble sorting out how this drive
> needs to be partitioned (sizes, types, etc), and setup in fstab. Any
> advice would be greatly appreciated.
It is you who has to decide what to do with that disk. Replace the
original one? Add to it? what? data? Put home in there? Put system in
there? Put another system? Boot with it? No?
It is impossible for us to give a recommendation.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Thank you for your responses.
I wish to make this disk a data drive.
The system is opensuse 11.1
When I tried to partition it using the partition tool within nautilus it only allowed maximum 2gb partitions. Also, when I tried to partition the disk it first asked if it should be primary or extended. I choose extended and made a 2 tb partition. I next choose to partition the rest of the disk and this time it let me create a 2tb ext3 partition. Any guidance on how I should set up the disk as 2 partitions in this system would be great. The first partition is listed w95 which I suspect is wrong.
On 2013-07-29 16:26, ss 00 wrote:
>
> Thank you for your responses.
>
> I wish to make this disk a data drive.
Ok…
> The system is opensuse 11.1
Huh oh… too old.
> When I tried to partition it using the partition tool within nautilus
> it only allowed maximum 2gb partitions.
Right, because you need to use GPP partitions, and several of the tools
do not support it - and even worse because you are using an obsolete
version.
Try gparted.
If it does not work, download a recent version (12.3 xfce rescue CD
suggested), and there use gparted to partition and format your disk.
Then, reboot to your system: if you can mount that media, fine; if not,
you will have to upgrade your entire system to 12.3.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:26:02 +0000, ss 00 wrote:
> The system is opensuse 11.1
>
> When I tried to partition it using the partition tool within nautilus it
> only allowed maximum 2gb partitions.
You need to use GPT to get larger partitions, and 11.1 is so old that
it’s not going to be updated (it went out of support years ago). You
need to upgrade to a newer version.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C