From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 13:30:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9A01065675 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C918FC12 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-25-183.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.25.183]:55318 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JjDts-0006n2-6b for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:30:12 +0200 Received: (qmail 35712 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2008 15:30:08 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 8 Apr 2008 15:30:08 +0200 Received: (qmail 20873 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Apr 2008 15:30:08 +0200 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:30:08 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Brian McCann Message-ID: <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Brian McCann , freebsd-questions References: <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.25.183 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JjDts-0006n2-6b. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JjDts-0006n2-6b 32980ab10de68a37ce7edf87d227ceea Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Large file system creation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:30:13 -0000 On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:39:48AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'm trying to create a ~9TB partition on a new file server. > I thought FreeBSD now supported this (I'm on 7.0), but I can't figure > it out. I go into sysinstall, create the partition in fdisk using "A > = Use Entire Disk), write it to disk, exit sysinstall and re-run > it...and sysinstall doesn't show what it showed before I exited last > time. > > Can someone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong here? > The filesystem (UFS2) supports disks larger than 2TB, but fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8) (which are what sysinstall uses to partition the disk) do not support disks larger than 2TB due to limitations in the on-disk format they use. You will need to use gpt(8) instead to partition your disk. This cannot be done from sysinstall and you normally cannot boot from a gpt(8)-partitioned disk due to lack of support in the BIOS of most PC. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se