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

["Michael S. Peek" <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

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