From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 19:12:01 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 2DF99106566C for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:12:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edlinuxguru@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F29E38FC21 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:12:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edlinuxguru@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so2098913wfa.7 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:12:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=/EEBLu/s0sRaQ2EEf6hnF1uCRUwBARDmnpzwIlEaLSs=; b=Q0tzxrYgwn8YtWgy9P0wkC7RJh/y83x0zcWgIa7bzfBOlibxZdS+qaO/kPetuxSSQKBpyS8AneHarwuEl9HmjJI45keLzUqdwd9qwjMYI0sRxvcAN+xqUaHGCJ+haxEehTHzrc/Tz+KLclpnjGR4ehSX/jjA6Ugb/nlX/SW7fOQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LSkT6nCuSzRPgZvwcS0edHbZN+ahlLdBI8tXVQShL2m1+CHYUnZkB5aibTCw+PQGDvwTPflcIayHz+1Qxs+NIeRuSgaXrjzz11lR9/YGrzvzv63PYfzsykW/DM6zsNttQ8GsxCR1pvWLwSF26dwDbwSxNJg/dVR+qsCVPk9fhvk= Received: by 10.142.103.11 with SMTP id a11mr1791781wfc.336.1207681920575; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.233.1 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:12:00 -0400 From: "Edward Capriolo" To: "Wojciech Puchar" In-Reply-To: <20080408153753.T23883@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20080408153753.T23883@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions , Brian McCann 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 19:12:01 -0000 On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Wojciech Puchar 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. > > > > or don't partition at all > > > > > > 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. > > > > or use old disk, pendrive, DVD-ROM etc. for booting > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Seems like a shame to boot a nice 9TB disk pack off a floppy Disk or a Pen drive. I mean you do what you have to but that just screams 'workaround'