Bug 471369

Summary: RHEL5: fdisk cannot create partition with starting beyond 1 TB
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.4CC: ftaylor, jmarko, rvokal, sghosh, tao, tumeya
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged, ZStream
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Description Tomas Smetana 2008-11-13 10:17:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
fdisk can not create partition which starting cylinder beyond 1 TB.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Create partition which starting cylinder beyond 1 TB.

Actual results:
Max partiton size is 1 TB.

Expected results:
Max partiton size is 2 TB.
2 TB is restriction of DOS partiton format.

Additional info:
There is similar report.

http://osdir.com/ml/linux.redhat.release.tikanga.beta/2007-01/msg00027.html
Comment 1 Tomas Smetana 2008-11-13 10:27:47 UTC 
Created attachment 323429 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 2 Karel Zak 2008-11-27 10:42:17 UTC 
Note that the problem has been fixed in upstream tree.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2009-03-26 16:56:03 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".
Comment 5 Tomas Smetana 2009-03-30 07:11:38 UTC 
Just a note: This was fixed in RHEL-4 already (bug #471372).
Comment 12 RHEL Program Management 2009-04-20 22:46:55 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".
Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 23:44:14 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0085.html