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[ale] very bid device
- Subject: [ale] very bid device
- From: jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:43:16 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
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.