growpart fails to resize the partition when a disk size is bigger than 2Tb

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Issue

  • growpart fails to resize the partition when a disk size is bigger than 2Tb
#growpart /dev/loop0 1
NOCHANGE: partition 1 could only be grown by -25769801728 [fudge=2048] <<<
  • growpart fails with the warning "WARN: disk is larger than 2TB. additional space will go unused."

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • cloud-utils-growpart-0.29-3.el8.noarch

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