How should I partition and format a 4TB drive for use with GoFlex Home?

I am currently booted in squeeze on a USB stick. I have a 4TB SATA III deskstar drive which currently has no partition table at all.

  Partition table scan:
  MBR: not present
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: not present

Disk /dev/sdb: 7814037168 sectors, 3.6 TiB
Physical sector size: 4096 bytes
Logical sector size: 512 bytes

I want to do thing the best way, but I'm a newbie without much linux experience, but i figured I should install parted, and gdisk (gpt fdisk) on my system, since I'm pretty sure fdisk won't cut it.

I would like to set my system up to boot on the SATA, normally, but I'd like to be able to boot from a USB stick up one is plugged in. Can someone give me step by step instructions on best practices to:

create the partition table (should it be mbr, gpt or something else?)
create partitions ( how many, what size?)
format the partitions ( what types what labels)
copy my system from the USB, and make the nessesary configuration changes.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/2013 09:16PM by Cassie.

Take a look at this post:

http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,10966,11240#msg-11240

i did it that way this morning.

thanks