Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you need not Fdisk, but GPT programs.
пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org>: > I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my > surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is there > anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical nature)? I live in > Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the little shop where I bought > it sold me a load of junk. But the device is in warranty until 2022 > and looks convincing (I checked the serial number on the WD web > site). Of course I can go to the WD service centre and get the HD > exchanged but I thought I would see if there were any technical > wheezes first. > > Thanks > Robin > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robin Atwood. > > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > >
