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Subject: Parted is known not to work properly with drives with sector sizes
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:58:21 +0100
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Hi Andrew,
I have the following problem :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# parted /dev/sda
You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to
[email protected] containing the version (1.6.19), and the following
message:
The sector size on /dev/sda is 1024 bytes. Parted is known not to work
properly with drives with sector sizes other than 512 bytes
Ignore/Cancel? Ignore
GNU Parted 1.6.19
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
Using /dev/sda
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-2667696.000 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
(parted)
is there any workaround to create a partition sda1 with 2,6TB ?
many thanks
Luc Schiltz
Web Technologies S.A.
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