How is a disk with more then 2TiB disk size using a DOS partition table?
Issue
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As per this document fdisk or parted won't create partitions larger than 2 TB, the DOS partion table should not be able to create partions greater then 2TB, but this does not seem to be correct :
$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print version Model: WD My Book 1130 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 3001GB Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB primary
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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