Hi all.
What will be an easy way to format a 4TB WD hard drive. Ubuntu 18.04 has been installed on it. I'll use it for storage only without partition.
$ sudo fdisk -lThe device is on /dev/sdaCode:Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk /dev/loop1: 3.7 MiB, 3825664 bytes, 7472 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/loop4: 1008 KiB, 1032192 bytes, 2016 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/loop5: 42.8 MiB, 44879872 bytes, 87656 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/loop6: 88.5 MiB, 92778496 bytes, 181208 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/loop7: 149.9 MiB, 157184000 bytes, 307000 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sda: 3.7 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: F3A8D40E-D988-4EF7-8FB7-B1F978474D92 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System /dev/sdb2 1050624 976771071 975720448 465.3G Linux LVM Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root: 464.3 GiB, 498539167744 bytes, 973709312 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I learned a bitter lesson before running Activities-->Disks to format it. It took more than 10 hrs to complete.
also takes sometime to finishCode:$ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda
Thanks in advice.
Regards
satimis
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