*fdisk and the 1.5TB partition size limit

If you have a large volume (like a disk array or the next-generation SATA disk) and you’re trying to create a single, giant partition for whatever reason, you should know that fdisk (for DOS compatibility reasons, I suppose) cannot create partitions bigger than ~1.5TB, although it won’t throw you any error or complain So if you want to create bigger partition, use parted (or one of its frontend). The limitation applies to fdisk, cfdisk and all the *fdisk family.

EDIT: in parted you have to change the disk partition type to something like gpt or you still won’t be able to create a partition bigger than 1.5TB.
Nonetheless, once the very large partition is created, I still haven’t found a way to format it, mount it and get all my terabytes. I’m still stuck with 1.5TB. Look at this:

server:~# parted /dev/mapper/mpath1
GNU Parted 1.7.1
Using /dev/mapper/mpath1
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Disk /dev/mapper/mpath1: 6000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 6000GB 6000GB ext2
server:~# df -h |grep mpath1p1
/dev/mapper/mpath1p1 1.5T 5.1M 1.5T 1% /mnt/logs


I’m stuck with this. Any idea, dear lazyweb?