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Create `ext4` Partition, Format and Mount using parted (`fdisk` unable to create partition more than 2TB).

Create Partition, Format and Mounting using parted.

Below is the image of how partition is divided. (courtesy from wikipedia)
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Logging into the server

First lets check the fdisk partition to see how much space we have on the server.
Using username "root".
root@192.168.100.44's password:
Last login: Wed Sep 30 13:22:13 2015 from 192.168.100.2
[root@my-server ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Disk /dev/sdb: 13196.0 GB, 13196018581504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1604324 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1      267350  2147483647+  ee  GPT
Checking disk. 
[root@my-server ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_ROOT
                       96G  1.9G   90G   2% /
tmpfs                 127G     0  127G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2             976M   32M  894M   4% /boot
/dev/sda1            1022M  276K 1022M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_HOME
                      976M  1.3M  924M   1% /home
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_VAR
                      998G  1.5G  946G   1% /var
Let us start partitioning the RAID on the server. 
[root@my-server ~]# parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 2.1
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: DELL PERC H730 Mini (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 13196GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start  End  Size  File system  Name  Flags

(parted) mklabel gpt
Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdb will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
Yes/No? Yes
(parted) unit GB
(parted) mkpart primary 1MB 13196GB
(parted) print
Model: DELL PERC H730 Mini (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 13196GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End      Size     File system  Name     Flags
 1      0.00GB  13196GB  13196GB  ext4         primary

(parted) quit
Partition is created. Now we are going to format it using ext4.
[root@my-server ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
732422144 inodes, 2929687296 blocks
146484364 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
89407 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
        4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
        102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632,
        2560000000

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 22 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@my-server ~]#
[root@my-server ~]#
Checking for the partition is ready. Now we need to mount it. 
[root@my-server ~]# lsblk
NAME                  MAJ:MIN RM    SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                     8:0    0    1.1T  0 disk
├─sda1                  8:1    0      1G  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2                  8:2    0      1G  0 part /boot
└─sda3                  8:3    0    1.1T  0 part
  ├─VG-LV_ROOT (dm-0) 253:0    0   97.7G  0 lvm  /
  ├─VG-LV_SWAP (dm-1) 253:1    0      3G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  ├─VG-LV_VAR (dm-2)  253:2    0 1013.6G  0 lvm  /var
  └─VG-LV_HOME (dm-3) 253:3    0      1G  0 lvm  /home
sdb                     8:16   0     12T  0 disk
└─sdb1                  8:17   0     12T  0 part /data
Creating a mount point.
[root@my-server ~]# mkdir /data
Updating /etc/fstab. Add the below line to /etc/fstab.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# drive      |     dir  |    fs-type     |    options     | dump  |  pass
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sdb1         /data       ext4           defaults        0         0
Here are more details about what each columns mean.
  1. file system : The partition or storage device to be mounted.
  2. dir : The mountpoint where is mounted to.
  3. fs-type : The file system type of the partition or storage device to be mounted. Many different file systems are supported: ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, smbfs, iso9660, vfat, ntfs, swap and auto. The auto type lets the mount command guess what type of file system is used. This is useful for optical media (CD/DVD).
  4. options : Mount options of the filesystem to be used. See the mount man page. Please note that some options are specific to filesystems; to discover them see below in the aforementioned mount man page.
  5. dump : Used by the dump utility to decide when to make a backup. Dump checks the entry and uses the number to decide if a file system should be backed up. Possible entries are 0 and 1. If 0, dump will ignore the file system; if 1, dump will make a backup. Most users will not have dump installed, so they should put 0 for the dump entry.
  6. pass : Used by fsck to decide which order filesystems are to be checked. Possible entries are 0, 1 and 2. The root file system should have the highest priority 1 (unless its type is btrfs, in which case this field should be 0) - all other file systems you want to have checked should have a 2. File systems with a value 0 will not be checked by the fsck utility.
Here is how the contents look like.
[root@my-server ~]# cat /etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue May 19 15:57:32 2015
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_ROOT  /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=4185b123-5123-45ca-b123-de6d1da123e2 /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=EB97-DBDC          /boot/efi               vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 0
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_HOME  /home                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_VAR   /var                    ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_SWAP  swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sdb1               /data                   ext4    defaults        0 0
[root@my-server ~]#
Executing mount -a to load the fstab entries. 
[root@my-server ~]# mount -a
Display mount entries.
[root@my-server ~]# mount
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_ROOT on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,umask=0077,shortname=winnt)
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_HOME on /home type ext4 (rw)
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_VAR on /var type ext4 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /data type ext4 (rw)
Checking for directory mounting. 
[root@my-server ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_ROOT
                       96G  1.9G   90G   2% /
tmpfs                 127G     0  127G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2             976M   32M  894M   4% /boot
/dev/sda1            1022M  276K 1022M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_HOME
                      976M  1.3M  924M   1% /home
/dev/mapper/VG-LV_VAR
                      998G  1.5G  946G   1% /var
/dev/sdb1              13T   31M   13T   1% /data
[root@my-server ~]#
Now we are all good.
Important Links : 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/s2-disk-storage-parted-create-part.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html
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