Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:40:22 -0500 From: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is the safe <2 TB number, precisely ? Message-ID: <cone.1164076822.6502.48230.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0611161246240.21120-100000@shell.dhp.com> <ejksbq$vgs$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras writes: > As Eric said, the 2 TB issue is not tied to the file system. It's tied > to the fdisk and disklabel. A perfectly valid workaround is not to use > fdisk & disklabel to partition your drive, but to partition it in the > array creation utility (safest) or use gpt (but you can't modify the gpt > table if there are mounted partitions on it). > > Thus, you can do "newfs /dev/da1", "mount /dev/da1 /whatever", etc. Where can I find information about the "array creation utility"? A couple of searches did not return anything.
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