From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 19 23:20:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (nexus.root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B836E37B404; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g2K7KnA95215; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:20:49 -0800 From: David Greenman To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: Jaye Mathisen , clash@tasam.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB) Message-ID: <20020319232049.W75496@nexus.root.com> References: <20020319131556.D99985@backmaster.cdsnet.net> <008901c1cf8c$be5d6f50$090510ac@gleason> <00b401c1cf8d$8960b7c0$090510ac@gleason> <20020319202137.U68606@backmaster.cdsnet.net> <20020320081439.74ca4530.steve@sohara.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020320081439.74ca4530.steve@sohara.org>; from steve@sohara.org on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:14:39AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:21:37 -0800 >Jaye Mathisen wrote: > >JM> I dont' need a 1 TB FS, I just need/wanted to be able to create >JM> multiple partitions < 1TB on a disk/slice > 1TB in size. > > I posted the answer to the wrong question then - you will need >multiple slices to do this with each under 1TB. That won't work either. FreeBSD cannot access blocks beyond 1TB on any device. It doesn't matter how you 'slice' it up. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message