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Date:      Wed, 09 May 2001 08:53:53 -0600
From:      Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
To:        "Damir" <damir.horvat@ibe.si>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: partition too big 
Message-ID:  <200105091453.f49ErrE32094@fedde.littleton.co.us>
In-Reply-To: <200105090825.KAA24841@dioda.ibe.si> 

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On Wed, 9 May 2001 10:24:53 +0200  "Damir" wrote:
 +------------------
 | Hello!
 | 
 | when installing freebsd I had a problem with Disklabel editor. 
 | 
 | When I tryed to make 250M /usr partition on 420M disk with 50M for 
 | / and 64M for swap, I get an error "Partition too big". 
 | How can I use whole diskspace?
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This kind of thing happens when the sum of the partition sizes is greater
than the size of the disk.  I think that you are misquoting something here.

The partition editor has an option to create a default set of partitions.
I'd start by looking at those and making adjustments from there.

--
    Chris Fedde

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