📝 Made further notes on basic partitioning

rpi4_image_notes.txt

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 # Step 1 is very simple, just download the img from the website, once the img is downloaded, you may need to use xz to extract it.
 
+```
 xz --decompress my_rpi_image.xz
+```
 
 # Once you have the image ready, plug in your sd card and use the command lsblk:
 
+```
 lsblk
+```
 
 # Usually the device will appear as something like /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, if there are numbers following sda/sdb, those are partitions.
 # It means there is something already written to the sd card, be sure you're ok with deleting and repartitioning the drive.
 
 # To repartition the drive, use the fdisk cli:
 
+```
 sudo fdisk /dev/sda
+```
 
 # Type o to clear out any partitions on the drive.
 # Type p to list the partitions, there shouldn't be any left.
 # Write the partition table and exit by typing w.
 
+# If you're using this guide to partition a standard drive larger than 2TB, fdisk won't be able to, but you can use parted instead:
+
+```
+parted /dev/sda
+```
+
+In the prompt you can create a new GPT table:
+
+```
+(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 TB
+
+(parted mkpart primary) 0.00TB 3.00 TB (replace latter with size of partition)
+
+(parted) print
+
+(parted) quit
+
+Then continue by making the ext4 filesystem (see below)
+```
+
 # Create the ext4 filesystem:
 
+```
 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
+```
 
 # Copy rpi image to sd card using dd:
 
+```
 sudo dd if=/path/to/rpi_image.img of=/dev/sda
+```
 
 # Depending on the size of the image, this might take a while, there won't be any progress bar or anything , but remain patient,
 # it will write the img eventually and then you're all set.