Bug 471372 - RHEL4: fdisk cannot create partition with starting beyond 1 TB
Summary: RHEL4: fdisk cannot create partition with starting beyond 1 TB
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: util-linux
Version: 4.7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-13 10:33 UTC by Tomas Smetana
Modified: 2018-10-20 01:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-05-18 19:01:45 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Proposed patch (452 bytes, patch)
2008-11-13 10:38 UTC, Tomas Smetana
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0981 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: util-linux security and bug fix update 2009-05-18 13:45:19 UTC

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


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