[SOLVED] Gparted error working with large drive

[djbon2112]

Even the latest version of parted (1.8.8) has this same problem. I'm still open to trying to get cfdisk working, but the problem lies in that it dependso on packages that are -udeb, instead of the regular ones I have installed on my system. Any advice?

[djbon2112]

There is something REALLY wrong here... even fdisk/cfdisk only create a 46GB partition! But I don't see how it's a problem with the controller since I can create many smaller paritions, but I can't see how 2 different versions each of 2 different Linux partitioning programs are having the same problem!

This is frustrating to the max.

Here's cfdisk after doing the following:

Creating a partition of the max size, then ctrl+c
Creating a new partition of the max size in the 2 TiB of free space, then ctrl+c
Opening the program again

[djbon2112]

I checked out the controller's settings and it can't be the culprit as everything is set correctly. This must be a problem with Linux. Can anyone offer any suggestions to get this bug fixed? (I don't want to use LVM and hack a couple partitions together in case I need to move the RAID to a new system/the OS crashes/etc.)

[djbon2112]

Well, I got it. I folowed the first few steps of http://eatingsecurity.blogspot.com/2...for-large.html to the letter, doing:

sudo su
parted
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpartfs primary xfs 0 2249G
(parted) quit

...then formatting the partition to actual XFS using gparted. It must've been because I was using an msdos partition label instead of gpt, and I never knew to change that since I had no idea what any of the other ones than msdos (like gpt) were.

Marked solved. If you have this problem, use a gpt label instead of the default msdos!