While running "parted -l" command on a disk, getting the "loop-partition-table-imposed" message?

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Issue

  • While running command parted -l for a disk, getting the following message.
Error: partition length of 9572327424 sectors exceeds the
loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295
  • What does this mean?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1+
  • parted < 2.1-21.el6

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