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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:31:53 -0700
From:      "Don O'Neil" <lists@lizardhill.com>
To:        "'Alexandre Biancalana'" <biancalana@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1
Message-ID:  <10435563D3EC45D8A9AE00AECF113945@mickey>
In-Reply-To: <8e10486b0810041351je5262fbi3bee00f47ef3bc68@mail.gmail.com>
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> >>> 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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I tried newfs before, same issue:

# newfs /dev/ad4
newfs: /dev/ad4: failed to open disk for writing




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