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[Andrew Clausen]

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   Hi Andrew,
    
   I have the following problem :
    
   address@hidden ~]# parted /dev/sda
   You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
   address@hidden containing the version (1.6.19), and the following
   message:
    
   The sector size on /dev/sda is 1024 bytes.  Parted is known not to work
   properly with drives with sector sizes other than 512 bytes
   Ignore/Cancel? Ignore                                                    
   GNU Parted 1.6.19
   Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
    
   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General
   Public License for more details.
    
   Using /dev/sda
   (parted) print                                                           
   Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-2667696.000 megabytes
   Disk label type: msdos
   Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
   (parted)                                                      
    
   is there any workaround to create a partition sda1 with 2,6TB ?
    
   many thanks

   Luc Schiltz
   Web Technologies S.A.
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