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EFI GPT

To use a partition larger than 2T, traditional tools such as fdisk will not work as MBR cannot address that much space. Instead, one needs to use EFI Guid Partition Table, aka GPT. WikiPedia has a very good elaboration on what that is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

To create such a partition, use parted:

parted /dev/cciss/c0d1
mklabel gpt
mkpart primary 0 4001G
toggle 1 lvm
quit


Then proceed to the usual mkfs or lvm provisioning.

Remove GPT
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=2
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 seek=2929629465

(/dev/sdb has 182361 cylinders of 16065 512b sectors each for a total of 2929629465 sectors.)

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