Bug 471372

Summary: RHEL4: fdisk cannot create partition with starting beyond 1 TB
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 4.7CC: cward, jscotka, rvokal, tao, ykopkova
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Description Tomas Smetana 2008-11-13 10:33:15 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #471369 +++

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 2 Tomas Smetana 2008-11-13 10:38:13 UTC 
Created attachment 323432 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-18 19:01:45 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/RHSA-2009-0981.html