parted ok but fdisk shows two partitions?

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I read that fdisk cannot be used to create partitions greater than 2GB. So I use “parted” to create my partition and use fdisk to view them once created and it has NEVER been a problem until now.

I have an infotrend RAID 6 that after I use parted and look at the RAID with “fdisk -l” it reports two partitions;

Device Boot * Start * END * Blocks * Id * Sys
/dev/sda1 * 1 * 267350 * 2147483647 *83 * Linux
/dev/sd4 * 1 * 1 * 0+ * ee * GPT

I can’t figure out what this /dev/sda4 is that keeps showing up? If I go into parted and “print” the only partition that shows up is /dev/sda1 as expected.

Wierd as I build a number of these systems using the same hardware and this is the first time I have seen this different /dev/sda4 show up - like it is a ghost partition?

Any thoughts?

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The output of fdisk you show (I presume you did a copy/paste, so it shows the truth) says: /dev/sd4, not sda4. You talk about /dev/sda4. Maybe you missed this?

BTW better put these computer ouitput copy/pastes between CODE tags. Makes them better readable for everybody.

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I read that fdisk cannot be used to create partitions greater than 2GB.

This is not true. Most of the partitions created with fdisk every day are much larger than 2GB.

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… and you may want to read about GPT here: GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.