----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthias Schniedermeyer" <ms@xxxxxxx> > > Stop! Wait a minute! Stop it, boy! > > > > (Sorry; Meat Loaf flashback. :-) > > > > You're looking at that partition table with fdisk, *which doesn't > > understand > > GPT partition tables*; it's amazing it didn't complain louder. > > It does. At least the version i got does: > > ... > WARNING: The size of this disk is 3.0 TB (3000592982016 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). > ... You're reading it wrong. That's the fdisk which you tell me understands GPT tables *telling you it does not*. > And that's not even the most recent version: > fdisk -v > fdisk (util-linux 2.20.1) > > But in the OP-Case the kernel appeared to reported the disc as 2TB, > which could be seen in the fdisk output. fdisk is not guaranteed to be using a long enough variable there to be able to report the drive size correctly. TTBOMK, *nothing* other than parted presently knows how to create and modify GPT partition tables. Except, apparently, for a program with the *singularly* poorly chosen name of "GPT Fdisk": http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ I know, that sounds like a *really good* name. I've been doing tech support for 30 years; trust me, it's about the worst imaginable name. :-} Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
