Bug 359396

Summary: Creating partition > 2TB
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Paul Kochie <pmkochie>
Component: YaST2Assignee: E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED NORESPONSE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: 64bit   
OS: OES - Linux   
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Description Paul Kochie 2008-02-06 23:28:43 UTC 
setup:
Dell PE2950 2 quad core processors
6x 750Gb SATA in 1 Raid5 container

SLES10sp1 OES2
partions:
/deb/sda 3.4Tb
/dev/sda1 1.0GB swap
/dev/sda2 30.0Gb /
/dev/sda3  This is the problem...
When creating a partition who's end is past the 1st 2TB of the drive I get and error:
The Value of the end cylinder 455671 was not valid.
The used disk lable msdos does not support partitions above the size of  2.0TB.
Therefore the cylinders value must be set below 267365.

Use the maximum allowed value or select No and enter a correct value yourself.

Use the maximum allowed value? yes no

If I select yes it makes a 1.9TB partition. I then try to make another partition I get the same error and can not make a partition.

I can resize the partition to 3.3TB as long as it has no mount point. 
Once resized I can then set a mount point.

So the real bug is that I should be able to create the 3.3TB partition in one action.
Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-02-07 21:03:31 UTC 
Can you try this on the 10.3 release, 10.1 is pretty old now.

Also, what program are you using to create this partition?
And what type of filesystem are you putting on this partition?
Comment 2 Christoph Thiel 2008-04-25 09:38:59 UTC 
Closing NOREPSONSE, due to missing information for more than 21 days. Please 
feel free to reopen and provide the requested information.