Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:30:06 +0200 From: Christoph Schug <chris+freebsd-questions@schug.net> To: Frank Altpeter <frank@altpeter.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange effect building large storage server Message-ID: <20070425193006.GA30162@voodoo.schug.net> In-Reply-To: <20070425183929.GC1872@corpex.de> References: <20070425183929.GC1872@corpex.de>
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007, Frank Altpeter wrote: > [Please CC me in replies, since i'm not subscribed to the list...] > > > Hi there, > > I was just hitting a quite strange problem with installing > FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE on an x86 platform... > > The machine itself provides a SATA raid controller, which is > equipped with 12x500G disks, making a total of about 5 TB space. > So, because of the 2GB restriction of freebsd, i decided to create 4 > partitions: da0s1 with 60G for the system, and da0s2 - da0s4 with ($rest / > 3). Then, creating two partitions on da0s2 - da0s4 with each ($rest / 6) > in size, making the system partitions and 6 x 816G partitions. > After installation and startup, i see strange things happen, since [...] I would rather guess you're encountering limitations of an MBR style partition table. Take a look at gpt(8) to overcome 2 GB limits. -cs
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