[TriLUG] 4TB GPT Disk fails to Mount with Tomato 2.6.22.19 Kernel

[Matthew Frazier]

On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:12 , Alan Sterger wrote:

> Hi Ron,
> 
> Tomato is E3000 Linksys router third-party firmware. The box I've been describing is configurable USB 3.0 external storage. What I'm trying to achieve is a NAS like backup capability.
> 
> Originally thought there was ambiguity in initializing a disk to GPT in linux.  Several tools were used and each gave different results.  'fdisk' being more mature always gave the same results but fdisk appears to only work on devices < 2TB.

AFAIK, fdisk doesn't do GPT. You'll need to install gdisk [1] in order to set up a GPT on your disk. parted does it as well, but I've always used gdisk, and I haven't had any problems.

[1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/

> -- Alan Sterger

Thanks,
Matthew Frazier
http://leafstorm.us/
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