use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu>]

Hi,

I need to back up a lot of data from old etch system running kernel 2.6.18-6#1
System is remote from where I am. I had them connect a 3Terabyte mybook from wd.

unfortunately I am running into the fdisk doesnt work with 3T drives problem, so i installed
parted, and old parted on this legacy system (etch) which is 1.7.1 
failed to create the partitions and 
confessed to me

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You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,
please visit the GNU Parted website:

       http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

for further information.

Your report should contain the version of this release (1.7.1)
along with the error message below, the output of

      parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and additional information about your setup you consider important.

Error: A general SIGSEGV signal was encountered.Aborted

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So I had the remote people
take the drive to a more modern sid machine 
and
using parted version 2.3 
I was able to create a gpt partition table
and partition into two 1.5TB partitions with ext3.

So my  question is, will the two  partitions be mountable and usable on the original ext3 system?

I am hoping the answer is yes. It will take a few long drives back and forth to find out :)

Thanks
Mitchell