[CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

On 23 Feb 2010, at 18:02, Robert Heller wrote:
> I guessing one of these things is going on:
> 
> A) Ubuntu has *patched* versions of parted and fdisk that disable their
> error checking (!).
> 
> B) Ubuntu has new versions of parted and fdisk that are more liberal
> than the (older) versions shipped with CentOS.
> 
> What does
> 
> parted -v
> and 
> fdisk -v

Yes, that is possible. The versions are:

# parted -v:  1.8.8

# fdisk -v:   util-linux-ng 2.14.2