Disks cannot create ext4 partition on 5 TB external USB drive

[Robert Pearson]

I deleted the pre-existing NTFS and got a drive with all space unallocated. When I tried to create an ext4 partition, I got an error about the size of the partition.

Closed Control Center->Disks and used gParted. No problem creating the ext4 partition.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.28.3-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-36.39-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: ufsd
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Sat Oct 13 15:40:29 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-disks
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-06 (99 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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