How to partition a disk larger than 2T?

Since I purchased a disk cabinet specifically for storage, I later considered the dynamic management of disk capacity and planned to use LVM for dynamic expansion management. First, let the front-end mounting machine recognize the logical volume group of the disk cabinet, such as: /dev/sdb

First introduce two types of partition tables:

MBR partition table: (MBR meaning: master boot record)
Maximum supported volume: 2T (T; terabytes, 1TB=1024GB)
Limits on partitions: Up to 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions plus one extended partition.
GPT partition table: (GPT meaning: GUID partition table)
Maximum volume supported: 18EB, (E: exabytes, 1EB=1024TB)
Each disk supports up to 128 partitions

Use parted to create a partition larger than 2T:

1，parted /dev/sdb
You can enter p to print disk information, check the partition status, and find the starting and ending locations.

2，mklabel gpt
Set the partition type to gpt

3，mkpart primary 0 1572860
primary refers to the partition type as the main partition, 0 is the starting position of the partition, and 1572860 is the ending position of the partition.

4，quit
After completion, use the quit command to exit.

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