major parted and fdisk issues on RHEL 5.5?

[Anne Moore]

Hello All!

 

I have multiple RHEL 5.5 boxes, and I’m trying to partition
out (cut up) our 2.2 TB of storage on each one. However, neither Parted or
Fdisk will allow it on any of the RHEL 5.5 boxes. (We do have 20 RHEL 4.0
boxes, and it works perfectly on those.) Given it works fine with RHEL 4,0, I
assume this is a bug with RHEL 5.5? 

 

Here’s the problem:

 

I’ve used GPT and msdos tables with this.

 

Disk /dev/sdb: 2247GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

 

Number  Start  End  Size  File
system  Name  Flags

 

(parted) mkpart primary ext3 1024 73000

(parted) mkpart primary ext3 60000 560000

(parted) mkpart primary ext3 560000 999999

(parted) mkpart extended ext3 999999 2143360



Now we have:

Number  Start   End    
Size    File system  Name     
Flags

 1      1024MB 
60.0GB 
59.0GB           
primary

 2      60.0GB 
560GB  
500GB               
primary

 3      560GB  
1000GB 
440GB              
primary

 4     
1000GB  2143GB 
1143GB           extended

At this point, I can’t do anything else. I try to create
logical drives out of the extended, like so:

 

I type in: (parted) mkpart logical ext3 999999 1400000

 

And I get back this error:

(parted) mkpart logical ext3 999999 1400000

Warning: You requested a partition from 1000GB to 1400GB.

The closest location we can manage is 2143GB to
2143GB.  Is this still

acceptable to you?

Yes/No?

 

And it doesn’t matter what I type on that (parted) line, it
always comes back with this same error message.

 

Again, this works fine in RHEL 4. But just won’t work on any
of our RHEL 5.5.

 

Anyone have any ideas on this? Is perhaps RHEL 5.5 expecting
something else on the command line? Or perhaps know of a patch that resolves
this?

 

Thanks to you all for the help.

 

Anne M.

 

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