[ale] very bid device

[Jerry Yu]

did you switch to GPT partition table instead of the default FAT table ? I
carved up several 3.6TB 3ware arrays on CentOS 4.1/x86_64 (AMD64) earlier
last year. fdisk didn't seem to be able to comprehend >2T (FAT table is
either the core cause or is the culprit). So did some ext2 fs utils, if I
recall correctly. I ended up using XFS as well. I have notes somewhere, if
interested.

On 10/19/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 16:30 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I just partitioned a 5.2TB disk and had some issues.  The first problem
> > I had was that fdisk  complained about no cylinders.  It also only saw
> > 2.0TB.  The 2nd problem was that the kernel kept reporting this message
> > "very big device, try READ CAPACITY(16)".
> >
> > I was able to partition using parted instead of fdisk.  I then formatted
> > using xfs and saw all disk space.  Am I clear?  Do I need to do anything
> > about that message in the kernel log?  How can I use fdisk instead of
> > parted?
>
> Have you tried cfdisk?
>
>
> -Jim P.
>
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