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http://anothersysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/fdisk-and-the-15tb-partition-size-limit/ asks Hoosgot,

Posted by Vide on September 30, 2008 If you have a large volume (like a disk array or the next-generation SATA disk) and you’re trying to create a single, giant partition for whatever reason, you should know that fdisk (for DOS compatibility reasons, I suppose) cannot create partitions bigger than ~1.5TB, although it won’t throw you any error or complain So if you want to create bigger partition, use parted (or one of its frontend). The limitation applies to fdisk, cfdisk and all the *fdisk family. EDIT: in parted you have to change the disk partition type to something like gpt or you still won’t be able to create a partition bigger than 1.5TB. Nonetheless, once the very large partition is …

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