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Andrew_Benjamin
May 17th, 2015, 03:26 PM
I have installed 14.04 on a new machine

I installed a new raid card (9740-8i) and I created a RAID 5 array on 3x4TB drives which is correctly seen by the system.

I now need to partition and format the drive so that it is seen as a single 8TB (actually 7+) drive which I will share via Samba.

It's been years since I've done this and clearly I'm doing it wrong.

I ran:

parted /dev/sdc mklabel gpt
parted /dev/sdc mkpart primary ext4 1 -1

I'm getting an error on the '1'

I was then going to run:

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdc1

So, quite simply: What commands do I run to end up with an ext4 '8TB' drive under 14.04?

Thanks, everyone.

Andrew

Andrew_Benjamin
May 18th, 2015, 12:43 PM
Well, I installed a graphical front end and used gparted - got everything up and running more easily that way.

Andrew