Attaching 2TB+ volume

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#1

I’m trying to attach a 6 TB volume to my existing instance. I’ve followed the previous post here, but when I run sudo fdisk /dev/vdc I get the following result:

    Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.27.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Device does not contain a recognized partition table.
The size of this disk is 5.9 TiB (6442450944000 bytes). DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes larger than 2199023255040 bytes for 512-byte sectors. Use GUID partition table format (GPT).

Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x4bc8255f.

Command (m for help):`

Is there another way to attach a volume but with full 6TB?

#2

You can use the gdisk utility for making GPT partitions in place of fdisk.

The gdisk interface is designed to be very similar to fdisk, so it should be reasonably simple to transpose the commands.

#3

Ah perfect, thank you!