Solve issue when creating a disk partition bigger than 2Tb in linux

got this error:
`The size of this disk is 4 TiB (4396972769280 bytes). DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes larger than 2199023255040 bytes for 512-byte sectors. Use GUID partition table format (GPT).`

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/08/2tb-gtp-parted/