On Monday 31 August 2009 10:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: > using util-linux's fdisk on a 3 TiB disk shows: > WARNING: The size of this disk is 3.0 TB (3000613662720 bytes). > DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes larger than > (2199023255040 bytes) for 512-byte sectors. Use parted(1) and GUID partition > table format (GPT). > > busybox's fdisk however doesnt have such a check/notice ... we should > probably > add it though.
Hmm. Can you strace util-linux's fdisk? What ioctl is it using? I'd expect most _methods_ of determining block device size would fail trying to report such a huge number. Perhaps an insane idea of using floating point for this is not totally insane after all... one day molecular/atomic storage may overshoot even 128-bit integers 8) -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
