Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:51:23 -0300 From: "Alexandre Biancalana" <biancalana@gmail.com> To: "Don O'Neil" <lists@lizardhill.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <8e10486b0810041351je5262fbi3bee00f47ef3bc68@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A5E18EB2ED142C2B97EFD5A82AA805F@mickey> References: <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey> <gc7s7u$kba$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081004181923.N2683@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4A5E18EB2ED142C2B97EFD5A82AA805F@mickey>
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On 10/4/08, Don O'Neil <lists@lizardhill.com> wrote: > >>> I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that > >>> didn't help. > >>> > >>> Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot > >>> off a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't > >>> have direct console access. > >>> > >> > >> Uhmm... This may seem silly, but did you use fdisk to create a slice > >> first before you tried partitioning? > >> > >this is NOT needed. actually i don't do it anywhere. > > > >it just may be sysinstall problem, anything else. > > > I tried using fdisk first, same problem, won't let me write to the disk. Do you will use the entire disk in one partition ? If so, just do: newfs /dev/ad4 Maybe you should to use gjournal for this large filesystem....
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