Either use the device without partitioning (as Josh suggested) or use
'parted' to partition it. fdisk has serious issues.

FYI, you'll have problems with mke2fs if you're using debian, grab
a static binary from elsewhere if necessary.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -0600, Chris Smith wrote:
> I just got a 7TB SAN and I'd like to be able to mount the thing as one large
> partition..but it appears I hit the 32bit limit with fdisk. I've googled all
> over the place, anyone have any hints? I saw something about a config_lbd,
> but i don't see that in my kernel mkconfig..
>  
> TIA,
> Chris

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