Basically, fdisk cannot create partition more than 2 TB. The other way to create the partition is using parted command.

Step one, locate the disk using fdisk

[cc lang=”bash”]fdisk -l[/cc]

Let say we got /dev/sdc

[cc lang=”bash”]parted /dev/sdc[/cc]

On parted
[cc lang=”bash”](parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart primary 0GB 3TB
(parted) exit[/cc]

To verify
[cc lang=”bash”]fdisk /dev/sdc[/cc]

Format disk to ext4
[cc lang=”bash”]mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1[/cc]

To mount the formatted disk
[cc lang=”bash”]mount /dev/sdc1 /data1[/cc]