Even though the parted command shows the partition as ext3, you can format it as ext4.
(parted) mklabel gpt Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sda will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? Yes/No? Yes (parted) unit TB (parted) mkpart primary 0.00TB 10.00TB (parted) p Model: LSI MR9261-8i (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 9.99TB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 0.00TB 9.99TB 9.99TB ext3 primary (parted) quit Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. [root@mh ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 305025024 inodes, 2440183808 blocks 122009190 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296 74469 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 4096 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done [root@mh ~]# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="1485be35-8319-4a49-b0bd-9ee465303b41" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="a7f0e3ef-3e72-4bc9-849a-90dde882f07f" /dev/sdb1: UUID="6ca14ed0-e5e0-422a-9e82-ea72fc84516b" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb2: UUID="ceb6e531-4a0a-49b9-9e59-d8f1ae4593c6" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb3: UUID="ab27cea4-abc8-49d8-894f-2c39408b196f" TYPE="ext4" [root@mh ~]# blkid|grep sda /dev/sda1: UUID="1485be35-8319-4a49-b0bd-9ee465303b41" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="a7f0e3ef-3e72-4bc9-849a-90dde882f07f" [root@mh ~]# blkid|grep sda >> /etc/fstab [root@mh ~]# vi /etc/fstab [root@mh ~]# mount -a