How to partition a 3TB disk?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

I just purchased a 3TB disk -- my first of that size.

I'm trying to partition it.  I want one huge ext4 filesystem.  But  
fdisk (and cfdisk) keep telling me that I can't create a partition  
larger than 2TB.

I've thought about creating three 1TB partitions then using LVM to  
merge them into one, but that seems like over-kill.

Has anybody got a suggestion?

Thanks!

Rick