[ale] very bid device

[Jim Popovitch]

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.