Package: util-linux Version: 2.12r-15 Followup-For: Bug #324525 This is a limit of the MS-DOS partition format. I failed to find a definitive technical writeup on the topic, but as pointed out here [1] the size limit of a block device managed by MS-DOS seems to be 2 TiB.
I also read that this is (IIRC!) caused by the sector count only being a 4-Byte signed integer, but I can't seem to find that URL anymore. Anyways, all partitioning tools (fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk) should _AT LEAST_ print a warning when trying to partition a blockdevice exceeding 2 TiB and should suggest using parted with a GPT-Partition instead of silently not doing The Right Thing (tm). Both fdisk and cfdisk seem to overflow a variable, with the result that on a ~3 TB blockdevice only a ~780 GiB partition gets created when trying to allocate all space. best regards, Michael Renner [1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69912 -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurs 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libslang 2.0.6-4 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 universally unique id library ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii tzdata 2006p-1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
