maybe i'm too stupid, but what's the command to format my external 2.5tb usb hdd to ext3? using mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 works, but only gives me 300gb of space allocated... where am i failing?thanks in advance.
Formating hdd to ext3 fails?
linux;partition;ext3
Run parted:parted /dev/sdcand do the following in it:mklabel gptmkpart primary ext3 4MiB -1MiBquitOnly then try to format it:mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1As a side note: fsck on a 2.5TB partition will take a long long time, use ext4 if you can, jfs or xfs otherwise.