I bought a Wester Digital Green 5TB harddisk and have difficulties to format it.
fdisk -l shows the following message:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sde'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sde: 5001.0 GB, 5000981078016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 608001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
I found similar questions but all addressing MBR disks, I did not find a solution for the message with a GPT disk.
Based on this post about 4K sectors I thought that I have to create the partition with gdisk starting on sector 4096 but this did not change anything.
gdisk /dev/sde: 9767541168 sectors, 4.5 TiB
Disk identifier (GUID): C6E7C7FB-4499-4E69-8D98-B1E79F22D219
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 9767541134
Total free space is 4062 sectors (2.0 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 4096 9767541134 4.5 TiB 0700 Linux/Windows data
Any help is very appreciated.
parted -l
on listing those partitions.fdisk
doesn't listGPT
partitions correctly.