Why parted command is failing to create new partition ?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Parted command is failing to create new partition with the below errors
(parted) mkpart primary 2199GB 2999GB
Error: starting sector number, 4294967296 exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imp
(parted) mkpart primary 2199GB 2499GB
Error: starting sector number, 4294967296 exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imp
(parted) mkpart primary 2199GB 2299GB
Error: starting sector number, 4294967296 exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imp
(parted) mkpart primary 2200GB 2899GB
Error: starting sector number, 4296873984 exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imp
(parted) mkpart primary 2200 2899
Error: starting sector number, 4296873984 exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imp

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2

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