parted gives "invalid argument during read" error while attempting to repartition a large preformatted disk

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • parted gives invalid argument during read error while attempting to partition a large disk when run as:

    parted /dev/sdc mklabel gpt
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • NTFS pre-formatted external USB disk

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