parted gives "invalid argument during read" error while attempting to repartition a large preformatted disk

Solution Unverified - Updated 2013-03-04T17:45:45+00:00 -

Issue

parted gives invalid argument during read error while attempting to partition a large disk when run as:
```
parted /dev/sdc mklabel gpt
```

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