Frontview formats a FOUR tb external drive as a TWO tb ext3!

Ok, so I think I've figured out how to format my USB drive to contain a big enough ext3 volume to hold my ReadyNAS NV+ data so I can Nuke the ReadyNAS with factory settings and the new firmware which is supposed to allow me to use all the pretty new 2TB drives.

I put the TitanicUSB drive on a Linux box and did this (as root of course):

(replace /dev/sdx with /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc or whichever USB drive you want to partition). Obviously, be sure you pick the CORRECT USB drive, or you'll wipe out that other one you forgot was plugged in. ;-)

# parted /dev/sdx
GNU Parted 1.8.8
Using /dev/sdx
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) print
Model: External RAID (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 6001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
(parted) mkpart primary 0 6001G
(parted) quit

Use mkfs to format file system (again, replacing /dev/sdx1 with your USB drive designator and partition number):

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdx1