Re: Partitioning And Formatting A Large Disk (2086.09GB)

I might be *very* wrong, just taking a wild guess here... Isn't this
some kernel config param somewhere for big disks (>2 TB)???

Good luck chasing this one. I am curious of the outcome, since I will
probably be setting up a fileserver somewhere in the coming months
with the same sizes.

Pim

On 1/30/07, Michael S. Peek <peek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
> Maybe fdisk can't handle huge disks? Have you tried cfdisk or sfdisk?
>
> Or, maybe, 3ware has it's own partitioning tool?
>
cfdisk says:
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size
> Press any key to exit cfdisk

sfdisk says:
> # sfdisk /dev/sdb
> Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
> OK
> Disk /dev/sdb: cannot get size
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 0 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
>
> sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
> /dev/sdb: unrecognized partition table type
> Old situation:
> No partitions found
> Input in the following format; absent fields get a default value.
> <start> <size> <type [E,S,L,X,hex]> <bootable [-,*]> <c,h,s> <c,h,s>
> Usually you only need to specify <start> and <size> (and perhaps <type>).
>
> /dev/sdb1 :1 2086
> Warning: given size (2086) exceeds max allowable size (0)

Any ideas greatly welcome,

Michael


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