Issue

• Why can't create partitions on external disks more than 2TB in Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Running parted on external disks (directly connected via USB or Firewire interfaces) resulting in following error messages,

# parted /dev/sdc print
 Backtrace has 8 calls on stack:
   8: /usr/lib64/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_assert+0x88) [0x2b86f87e7e58]
   7: /usr/lib64/libparted-1.8.so.0 [0x2b86f881b44f]
   6: /usr/lib64/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x94) [0x2b86f87ef154]
   5: parted [0x405e1e]
   4: parted(non_interactive_mode+0x7c) [0x40af8c]
   3: parted(main+0x4e) [0x4091ce]
   2: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x3e7a61d994]
   1: parted [0x4046d9]


 You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

 Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
 Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

 Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking
 the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at:

         http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

 Please check this version prior to bug reporting.

 If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check,
 please visit the GNU Parted website:

         http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

 for further information.

 Your report should contain the version of this release (1.8.1)
 along with the error message below, the output of

         parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

 and additional information about your setup you consider important.

 Assertion ((PedSector) PED_LE64_TO_CPU (gpt->AlternateLBA) <=
 disk->dev->length - 1) at gpt.c:815
 in function gpt_read() failed.

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