#428 Impossible to create a hidden volume on a partition in Linux Debian

[John SMITH]

Hi there,
In the version 1.24-update7 version in Linux (I use Debian), I cannot create a hidden volume on a 4.5 TB partition of an external drive (which is the second partition of the drive, after a first 20 GB partition). When selecting "hidden volume" at the beginning of the wizard, it actually actually fails at outer volume formating with the following message, whether I choose ExFAT or Linux Ext4 (I refuse the other FSs).

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Error: The hidden volume to be created is larger than 2 TB (2048 GB).

Possible solutions:

• Create a container/partition smaller than 2 TB.
• Use a drive with 4096-byte sectors to be able to create partition/device-hosted hidden volumes up to 16 TB in size.

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Note 1: Creating only a simple volume (no "hidden" option at the beginning) works well.
Note 2: selecting quick format or not "I will use use it only on Linux" or "I will use it on other platforms" doesn't change anything
Note 3: My disk has a GPT partition table and has 4k sectors (both physical and logical)
Note 4: the process of creating a volume with hidden sub-volume on that very same partition works flawlessly on version 1.23-hotfix2 in my Windows 10 system (problem is I would need Ext4 on my outer volume to benefit from native file tags, but Windows version only allows ExtFAT and NTFS)