On Wed, 30 May 2012, Brian Wall wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > >> Or try switching to an fdisk tool that produces a GUID partition table >> (GPT), which shouldn't have problems with partitions of that size. It >> looks like the tool for that is "gdisk", though I've never used it... > > That fixed it!! Switching from MBR to GPT was quick and painless with > gdisk, it re-wrote the partition table and now I have my partitions > persistent after reboot. That was the same thing that got me when I went from 2TB HDDs to 3TB HDDs. This is going to be happening to a lot of people in the next few years. It would be nice if the software (e.g., fdisk) could do a better job of explaining why it will fail. Pay attention to what gk wrote -- he helped me a lot. Mike