How can I create a disk partition on a disk that is greater than 2TiB in size on Red Hat Enterprise Linux? - Red Hat Customer Portal

I'm trying to create a partition on my 5.4TB disk with fdisk and the partitions are not the correct size. Failed to see large file system, I made an RAID5 file system (DELL PERC-H730 controller) using 5x1.2TB disks and #fdisk -l /dev/sdc shows that I do have 4.7GB raw device: Disk /dev/sdc: 4798.6 GB, 4798552211456 bytes 90 heads, 3 sectors/track, 34711749 cylinders Units = cylinders of 270 * 512 = 138240 bytes Upon making new partition using fdisk, followed by filesystem(mkfs) and mounting the new file system only show 2.0TB??? /dev/sdc1 2.0T 199M 1.9T 1% /data Cannot understand what I did wrong on the making of partition. Why can't I create partitions that utilize the whole disk? Why can I only create partitions that only use the first 2 TiB of a large disk? How do I create partitions to utilize space beyond 2TiB? What is the largest size disk that can be partitioned with msdos partitions? What is the largest size disk that can be partitioned with GUID Partition Table (GPT)? What is the different between msdos partitioning and GPT partitioning? What is a GPT Protective Partition and why is one created in msdos partition table when a GPT is also present? What is the difference between TB and TiB when referring to disk and partition size? How is a disk with more then 2TiB disk size using a DOS partition table? ↴ How to confirm which partition table (MBR/GPT) is present on disk? ↴ Does the msdos partition table supports 2TiB or 2TB? ↴