Re: fdisk error!, how can i do?

use parted to manage partition table in EFI GPT format.

tullio

hx w wrote:

>platform: Itaniume2, 8G memory, Raid5 (3 hard drives,
>146G *3).=20
>
>
>[root@wave root]# df -h
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda7             5.8G  982M  4.6G  18% /
>/dev/sda1             512M   58M  454M  12% /boot/efi
>/dev/sda2              97G  549M   91G   1% /home
>/dev/sda8              90G  506M   85G   1% /opt
>none                  4.0G     0  4.0G   0% /dev/shm
>/dev/sda6             7.7G   33M  7.3G   1% /tmp
>/dev/sda4              29G  4.3G   24G  16% /usr
>/dev/sda5             9.7G  271M  8.9G   3% /var
>/dev/cdrom            367M  367M     0 100% /mnt/cdrom
>
>[root@wave root]# fdisk /dev/sda
>=20
>The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 35698.
>There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger
>than 1024,
>and could in certain setups cause problems with:
>1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions
>of LILO)
>2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>=20
>Command (m for help): p
>=20
>Disk /dev/sda: 293.6 GB, 293628542976 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 35698 cylinders
>Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 8225280 bytes
>=20
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id=20
>System
>/dev/sda1             1     35699 286746623+  ee  EFI
>GPT
>
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