Formatting bigger Partitions

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi,

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 10:36, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 31 May 2006 09:51:46 +0200, Stephan Hermann
> >>>>> <sh at sourcecode.de> said:
> >>>>>
>     > We came across a problem in sfdisk/fdisk/cfdisk that it can't handle
>     > sector sizes, where the numbers are >9 chars.
>
> Fill a bug report for sfdisk.

For sure, including a patch :)

>
>     > We tried to partition a 6.3TB Partition on an HW Raid 6 and format it
>     > later with xfs.
>     > With parted it works, but with no other partition tool.
>
> So if sfdiks does not work, use a hook for task partition and use
> parted inside this hook. It's not that flexible as a disk_config file,
> but it will work. IMO there are examples of some partitions hooks in
> the faiwiki.

we wrote a hook for partitioning the disk using parted.
But I wondered if anybody else was encountering this problem :)

\sh