Bug#614584: fdisk: cannot handle sector numbers of 2^31 and above

2013-10-16 Thread Juhani Karlsson
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 (

Bug#614584: fdisk: cannot handle sector numbers of 2^31 and above

2011-02-22 Thread Uwe Storbeck
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