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

["Pim Bliek" <pim.bliek@gmail.com>]

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@tiem.utk.edu> 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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