Hello all, I've searched all over and can not find a definitive answer to this.
How large of a hard drive can I install Mint 18/19 (if different) on out of the box without tinkering? I can say for sure a 3tb drive because its the largest I have but would like to upgrade to a 4tb or 5tb but would like to know for sure that its possible. Thanks for your time.
Hard Drive capacity
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lenny
Hard Drive capacity
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WharfRat
Re: Hard Drive capacity
I have mine installed on
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Re: Hard Drive capacity
ext3 supports 16TiB, and ext4 supports 1 Exbibyte.lenny wrote: ⤴Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:17 pm Hello all, I've searched all over and can not find a definitive answer to this.
How large of a hard drive can I install Mint 18/19 (if different) on out of the box without tinkering? I can say for sure a 3tb drive because its the largest I have but would like to upgrade to a 4tb or 5tb but would like to know for sure that its possible. Thanks for your time.
"There is, ultimately, only one truth -- cogito, ergo sum -- everything else is an assumption." - Me, my swansong.
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srq2625
Re: Hard Drive capacity
The above, while being correct, is not the whole story. At least one other component comes into play - the disk partition type (is that the right term?).
If you are using the old BIOS MBR, the max drive size supported is ~2.2TB (if using traditional 512B sectors) or 16TB (if using 4K native sectors).
But, GPT supports 2^64 logical blocks where each block can be either 512B or 4KB (9,444,732,965,739,290,427,392 bytes [9E+21] or 75,557,863,725,914,323,419,136 [7.5E+22] ) both of which are crazy large by current standards (2.2TB ~= 2.19E+12).
If you are using the old BIOS MBR, the max drive size supported is ~2.2TB (if using traditional 512B sectors) or 16TB (if using 4K native sectors).
But, GPT supports 2^64 logical blocks where each block can be either 512B or 4KB (9,444,732,965,739,290,427,392 bytes [9E+21] or 75,557,863,725,914,323,419,136 [7.5E+22] ) both of which are crazy large by current standards (2.2TB ~= 2.19E+12).