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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: LBD support with 2.6.10
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:11:49 +0000
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> sfdisk: BLKGETSIZE ioctl failed for /dev/sda
> 
> Did I miss something regarding LBD support ?
> Any ideas ?

You can't use old DOS-style partition tables for really big disks.
SGI successfully uses IRIX disk labels, but others may work aswell.