Public bug reported:

The Disk Utility cannot edit partitions (create, delete, LUKS) on GPT-
based drives with a size bigger than MBR-based drives would support.

I have a 4TB WD My Book 1140.1016 that requires a GPT partition table
because it's 4GB, beyond MBR (MSDOS) limits. When I create a GPT
partition table, I cannot add or remove partitions from the Disk Utility
with this output:

    Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: 
device_file=/dev/sdb, offset=3145729048576
    Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=4000752599040)
    MSDOS_MAGIC found
    found partition type 0xee => protective MBR for GPT
    Exiting MS-DOS parser
    Entering EFI GPT parser
    No GPT_MAGIC found
    Leaving EFI GPT parser
    Entering Apple parser
    No MAC_MAGIC found
    Leaving Apple parser
    No known partition table found
    got it
    got disk
    ped_disk_get_partition_by_sector() failed


Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release:        12.04
Codename:       precise


Package: gnome-disk-utility
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.0.2-2ubuntu7
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libgdu-gtk0 (>= 3.0.0), libgdu0 (>= 2.29.90), 
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), liblaunchpad-integration-3.0-1 
(>= 0.1.17), libnautilus-extension1a (>= 1:2.91), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), 
libunique-3.0-0 (>= 2.90.1)
Filename: 
pool/main/g/gnome-disk-utility/gnome-disk-utility_3.0.2-2ubuntu7_amd64.deb
Size: 464774

** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Palimpsest does not support gparted GPT

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