Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:13:29 -0800 From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, clash@tasam.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB) Message-ID: <20020320151329.W68606@backmaster.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20020320223819.69e8bd86.steve@sohara.org> 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> <20020320190727.1cb65fac.steve@sohara.org> <20020320110647.A96231@nexus.root.com> <20020320223819.69e8bd86.steve@sohara.org>
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Well, I figured it out. WHat DOS seems to have done is created enough of a valid partition table that disklabel sees 1TB of the 1.1TB disk. So I'm losing a bit of space. I'll cope. It still would've been nice if disklabel could've created the label up to 1 TB, w/o having to resort to DOS, but it's probably not worth investigating a boundary case like that. In any case, I"m functional, and now I understand the underlying limitation, I really didn't understand it was the physical disk limited to 1TB, rather than just the UFS on top of it. Thanks for everybody's help. On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:38:19PM +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:06:47 -0800 > David Greenman <dg@root.com> wrote: > > DG> They're only seperate devices in the same sense that a different partition > DG> is a different device. In both cases this is just a software abstraction. > DG> FreeBSD internally calculates an offset within the whole disk when individual > > All is now clear - apart from one little detail. The OP that started > this thread reported that making a small DOS partition at the start of > the drive enabled him to use the rest of the drive from FreeBSD. It now > seems to me that this should not have worked. > > ref: Message-ID: <20020319131556.D99985@backmaster.cdsnet.net> > > -- > 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
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