外付けディスクに、2TB 以上のパーティションが作れません

Issue

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux を使用して、2TB 以上のパーティションを外付けのディスクに作れませんが、なぜですか? parted コマンドを使用して、外付けディスク (USB や Firewire インタフェースに直につないだ物) のパーティションを切ろうとすると、以下のようなエラーになります。

# 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]


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 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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• どのように対応すれば良いですか?