Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 23:17:25 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Kyle Peterson <kyle.peterson@sk.sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating disk slices Message-ID: <20001216231725.E96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <000701c067ef$d975e200$64d2010a@rgle.net>; from kyle.peterson@sk.sympatico.ca on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:09:00AM -0600 References: <000701c067ef$d975e200$64d2010a@rgle.net>
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:09:00AM -0600, Kyle Peterson wrote: > Hello everybody. I am having a minor problem installing FreeBSD 4.2. When > I am setting up the disk slices, and choose "auto select" (I think that's > what it is called) everything is OK. I don't agree with the swap file size > of 256MB, so I delete the /usr & swap mounts. I make a filesystem of 64MB > for the swap, and 1880MB for the /usr filesystem. When I try to create the > 1880 /usr filesystem, I get a message saying that it can't create the > filesystem. It says "Unable to create filesystem, Too big?". Why is it > doing this, I am not entering more space than what I actually have. BTW, I > have a 2 GB EIDE drive. I think 50MB is for /, 20MB for /VAR, and I want > 64MB for swap and the rest for /usr. Thank you. I do believe that when you try to create that last partition, the default value you will be offered is all of the space left on the drive. If you type '1880M' and there are actually only 3850239 sectors (that's one less than 1880MB worth for those not doing the math at home) it will fail. If you really think there is a problem, post the _exact_ numbers you have in your drive specs, the numbers you have on the slice table, and the numbers you are trying to use on your partitions. We can then figure out what is going on. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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