From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 20 10: 7:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.wanadoo.nl (smtp2.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2545537B417; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p2431.vwr.wanadoo.nl [194.134.217.136]) by smtp2.wanadoo.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g2KI7VJ11774; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:07:32 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:07:27 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: David Greenman 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$090510ac@gleason> <20020319202137.U68606@backmaster.cdsnet.net> <20020320081439.74ca4530.steve@sohara.org> <20020319232049.W75496@nexus.root.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:20:49 -0800 David Greenman wrote: DG> >On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:21:37 -0800 DG> >Jaye Mathisen 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 ? -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message