fdisk - partition size limitation?

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Hello,

does 'fdisk' have an implicit limitation in maximum size of a partition it 
can create? Or is this a deeper problem, originating from 'msdos' 
partition labels?

I have a 5TB disk storage, which is currently setup to present all that 
space as one volume. I can make a filesystem using a whole disk 
(/dev/sdc), but I prefer using partitions.

But it seems like there is some 32-bit issue with fdisk - I can't create 
paritions larger then '145814' cylinders (which is 1171245312 blocks or 
63-2342490687 sectors).

If I use 'sector' units fdisk allows the maximum number 2147483647...

I'm sure some of you have storages larger than 2TB - how do you use them?


 Thanks, Danilo