Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB? Message-ID: <201012031813.11266.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <4cf8dbdd.7sbsexcxBlJtEO11%mueller6724@bellsouth.net> References: <4cf8dbdd.7sbsexcxBlJtEO11%mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
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--nextPart1642129.yIELchBEGW Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday, December 03, 2010 06:00:29 am Thomas Mueller wrote: > Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard > drive > 2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive > firmware can make sector size look like 512 bytes. I know fdisk can > handle up to 2 TB; this limit is not just for BSD but Linux too. >=20 > Western Digital has come out with a SATA hard drive of 3 TB. >=20 > Tom Sure. FreeBSD supports installing to and booting from GPT labeled disks th= at=20 don't suffer from the 2TB size limitation that fdisk imposes. The caveat i= s=20 that very few systems have a BIOS that can boot from a GPT labeled drive. = So=20 regardless of your OS, you may still have issues. It's worth noting that RAID arrays have been larger than 2 TB for years, an= d=20 the way RAID cards have gotten around the issue is to carve off a chunk of = the=20 array and present it to the OS as a small boot LUN. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel --nextPart1642129.yIELchBEGW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJM+YeWAAoJEKFq1/n1feG2cK0H/1uY+zCeSX/vp98kkz4L8nTK U8YgDZqu7kC2u0KLykvK9x5hb/shXBB7ZB5Renjc+QZxdexqhwefy21kL7uY5Xo5 VGoQZHX85LUyzHTpXrQFIPlZii/Oth9YjOfuUFkY6zpkye0c+kCN8P8UNpAlHRoX UgeLBPf4/LS2FeEgswizenjiC3easEKsZR/bFfvOZ8sZlG7vQg6Ujqqd2XeRCGWS IXGl7Q9OsiFT1RlgoJX5r1juq6jCnQlXfy1triHYIeCLCfi/DxL9LBc4u5aj1C5K XxdWiGDfVUDPiId5xd2do7TFIIArXTyEiOBzb7QZL+KU3cUqsAQyGITRTIKne1o= =Ohw/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1642129.yIELchBEGW--
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