Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:07:25 -0400 From: "Brian McCann" <bjmccann@gmail.com> To: "Brian McCann" <bjmccann@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Large file system creation Message-ID: <2b5f066d0804080807q65ba3137xaece7196e7045f42@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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That looks like what I need. I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot off of, so that's perfect. Now to just read some man pages. Thanks! --Brian On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > -- > <Insert your favourite quote here.> > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"
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