I can confirm the same problem. Really annoying when creating partitions
for RAID, really impossible to create large partitions of same size.
I wanted to leave some empty space to end of drive for future use, only
option to create last partitions was to make an estimated same size with
gparted (
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.17.2-9
Severity: normal
fdisk recommends to switch display units to sectors. But it
cannot handle sector numbers of 2^31 and above. Even worse it
silently fails to set such sector numbers (see example below).
So you cannot align partitions exactly for harddisks with
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