more Bad News.
Short Story: i write to inform, Gparted does Not support ExFAT, XFS, Ext4 Not Journaled, etc... also Not designed for large drives: 18TB NTFS fail to format.
Long Story: a few days ago i decided to break the pig bank, and buy 2x 18TB HDD Seagate Exos, i had many small 2.5" everywhere, 500MB, 750MB, 1TB, 2x 2TB, also large 3.5" 2TB, had 4, but 1 fell to the ground, the cat jumped on top of the HDD tower and fell from a considerable distance. 1 got damaged, 1 semi-damaged. 2x ok.
Searching all HDDs was crazy, tedious, manually intensive labor.
but using large HDD over 2TB is a serius problem, for example: external USB3.0 to HDD case i have, needed Firmware Update. and activating all the Flags in the Bios, except 2TB flag that limits the HDD.
formatted 1x 18 TB HDD in different OS, different FS. Linux, Windows8.1, OSX HighSierra. NTFS, OSX HFS+ Journaled, Ext4 Journaled, Not Journaled.
Ext4 is Not designed for large drives, Ext4 Journaling makes weird noises constantly, will kill the drive if continues indefinitely. Ext4 Not Journaled fails in Gparted, Nautilus, etc... but does Not make crazy noises.
Linux HFS+ hfsplus hfsprogs drivers are incomplete, does Not allow to mount bigger than 2TB, does Not allow to change the name, etc...
OSX HFS+ Journaled works OK, Windows8.1 NTFS works Ok Linux Gparted NTFS fails. ExFAT Linux supprot is SuperBad... ExFAT is Ok for Windows8.1 and OSX, but dont like it, has something strange with some files.
also dont like NTFS because the constant defrag, wanted to use HFS+ because OSX does defrag evertime a file is R/W "in realtime", problem does Not accumiulate like NTFS. but cant... there are many other problems...
decided to Try XFS developed by SGI for IRIX OS and Btrfs developed by Oracle.
both created years ago, but development continued in Linux Kernel.
Bye Bye Ext4.