On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:22:56PM -0800, Vahe Avedissian wrote:

Folks,

I'm trying to create a partition > 2TB on opensuse 11.0 x64 kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default. As far as I know only parted and gparted understand gpt partitions (fdisk, cfdisk, etc... don't work).

From what I can see the kernel does have GPT support enabled. parted does have gpt as an argument to mklabel, but when I specify that is tells me it is an invalid token:

Hi, you have to do it this way: # parted /dev/hdd GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/hdd Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/hdd will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? Yes/No? yes New disk label type? [gpt]? gpt (parted) quit Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. So type 'mklabel' without any arguments and then specify that you want the label to be 'gpt'. Not very intuitive... HTH

GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel gpt Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sda will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? parted: invalid token: gpt Yes/No? No (parted) quit

When I try gparted, it simply crashes with several pages of back trace:

====================== libparted : 1.8.8 ====================== *** glibc detected *** /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x000000000089f400 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6[0x7fbad8e80af8] /lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x7fbad8e826e6] /usr/lib64/libparted-1.8.so.8(ped_disk_delete_partition+0xb5)[0x7fbadcd05575] /usr/sbin/gpartedbin[0x449412] /usr/sbin/gpartedbin[0x45667e] /usr/sbin/gpartedbin[0x42dc69] /lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x7fbad8bf6040] /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7fbad8ede08d] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-004ce000 r-xp 00000000 08:46 183462 /usr/sbin/gpartedbin 006cd000-006ce000 r--p 000cd000 08:46 183462 /usr/sbin/gpartedbin 006ce000-006d0000 rw-p 000ce000 08:46 183462 /usr/sbin/gpartedbin 006d0000-00a08000 rw-p 006d0000 00:00 0 [heap] 40256000-40257000 ---p 40256000 00:00 0 40257000-40a57000 rw-p 40257000 00:00 0 7fbacc000000-7fbacc032000 rw-p 7fbacc000000 00:00 0 7fbacc032000-7fbad0000000 ---p 7fbacc032000 00:00 0 7fbad3508000-7fbad3535000 r--p 00000000 08:46 69458 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/albwi.ttf 7fbad3535000-7fbad355f000 r--p 00000000 08:46 69456 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/albwb.ttf 7fbad355f000-7fbad35bf000 rw-s 00000000 00:09 5570580 /SYSV00000000 (deleted) 7fbad35bf000-7fbad4372000 r--p 00000000 08:48 27037 /opt/kde3/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache 7fbad4372000-7fbad4fcd000 r--p 00000000 08:46 194187 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache 7fbad4fcd000-7fbad4ff7000 r--p 00000000 08:46 69455 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/albw.ttf 7fbad4ff7000-7fbad4ff9000 r-xp 00000000 08:46 24382 /usr/lib64/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so 7fbad4ff9000-7fbad51f8000 ---p 00002000 08:46 24382 /usr/lib64/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so

Try to report this to gparted upstream... -- Best regards / s pozdravem Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: puzel@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 964 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org