Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:52:08 -0700 (PDT) From: dpk <dpk@dpk.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystem woes Message-ID: <20050728154356.A79761@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> In-Reply-To: <20050721100327.GA16179@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20050719145822.W23753@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <441x5tk3e9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050720064637.Q23753@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <20050721100327.GA16179@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Are you trying to start from scratch, or just making changes to the > existing table? If it's the second, then try the -u option: > > # fdisk -u /dev/da0 > > This should give you a chance to interactively change the partition > table of the disk. If this fails too, please show us the exact command > line you used and the exact error messages. > > - Giorgos Unfortunately I can't run fdisk -u, if that command will wipe out the partition table, since / is also on the array, just in a smaller partition. I found this page: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ It was last updated in January. Has there been more progress on this front? I wonder if this is all a known problem, and I just overlooked it because of my understanding that UFS2 is supposed to handle large partitions.
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