On Thursday, December 16, 2010 02:03:23 pm mcclnx mcc wrote: > if disk large than 2TB, "fdisk" will not work correctly. For GPT, use gdisk as a substitute for fdisk. gdisk 0.6.10 is available for CentOS 4 and 5 in the RPMforge third-party repository. The version in Fedora 14 is 0.6.13, for comparison. Output on my laptop: [root at localhost ~]# gdisk /dev/sda -l GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.6.13 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sda: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 11223344-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXAABBCCDD Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries Total free space is 525717 sectors (256.7 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition333 2 409640 386210423 184.0 GiB AF00 MixBusSL333333333333333 3 386473984 402104319 7.5 GiB 8200 LinuxSwap33333333333333 4 402104320 484024319 39.1 GiB 0700 F14 5 484024320 861511679 180.0 GiB 0700 LinuxHome33333333333333 6 861511680 976510983 54.8 GiB AF00 Interchange333333333333 [root at localhost ~]# Don't know why the repeated 3s are there.