Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:07:27 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: mrcpu@internetcds.com, clash@tasam.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB) Message-ID: <20020320190727.1cb65fac.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <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> <20020319232049.W75496@nexus.root.com>
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:20:49 -0800
David Greenman <dg@root.com> wrote:
DG> >On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:21:37 -0800
DG> >Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> wrote:
DG> >
DG> >JM> I dont' need a 1 TB FS, I just need/wanted to be able to create
DG> >JM> multiple partitions < 1TB on a disk/slice > 1TB in size.
DG> >
DG> > I posted the answer to the wrong question then - you will need
DG> >multiple slices to do this with each under 1TB.
DG>
DG> That won't work either. FreeBSD cannot access blocks beyond 1TB on any
DG> device. It doesn't matter how you 'slice' it up.
I thought fdisk slices were separate devices to FreeBSD so it should
be possible to put 1TB on each. Where did I go wrong this time, does FreeBSD
need to see the whole drive as a single device too ?
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