Change volume type from MSDOS to GPT
March 18, 2009 – 21:08 by Hannes Van de VelTo use a volume larger than 2GB it needs the GPT volume label in stead of MSDOS. I used this with Openfiler 2.3.
You can change it like this. THIS REMOVES ALL DATA!
parted /dev/sdb mklabel GPT quit
Check:
parted /dev/sdb print Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-2000000.000 megabytes Disk label type: gpt Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags 1 0.017 100.000
One Response to “Change volume type from MSDOS to GPT”
You have not idea.
If start of new partition (mpt) is bigger than the start of partition (msdos) you already have, you’ll lost all data, if is equal or smaller, you don’t loose anything.
By sysadmin on Mar 31, 2009