#372 GPT 3TB Hard Drives on SnakeOS

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: rafasnu...@gmail.com

Hey guys,

I'm kinda new into Snake-OS and I'm having troubles with this issue. I saw something here and there but I couldn't really find a solution for this case.

Is there any way to use a 3TB (or larger) hard drive on SnakeOS? Even if I have to make two partitions os 1.5 for example...

I was going mad to share an HDD 4-Bay case directly over the network and SnakeOS and K-330 does it perfectly but I'm just having this specific problem now.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: stefansc...@googlemail.com

Anything above 2TB requires GPT partitions. SnakeOS only supports MBR.

The kernel actually supports GPT and turning it on would be trivial.. but last time I toyed with that it produced some unfirendly warnings when I actually attached a GPT disk.. the partitions still worked though.

If you want to play guinea pig I can put up a GPT enabled build. You would have to format the disk on another computer though, preferibly as EXT3 because the performance with NTFS is terrible.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: wcrof...@gmail.com

I'm happy to be a guinea pig as I have two 3TB drives that I want to connect to my SnakeOS WLX-652 device. Device is already useless for me if it won't support the GPT drives so it can't get any worse. I updated to the latest version of SnakeOS but it still doesn't recognize the drives

I don't know how to recompile the kernel and I haven't really played with commands in Linux for over 10 years so unless it's a bin file that I can just update from the web interface for the device I might need some step-by-step instructions to go with it.