From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 13:37:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA11763 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from digital.netvoyage.net (root@digital.netvoyage.net [205.162.154.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11746 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:37:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bogawa@localhost) by digital.netvoyage.net (8.6.13/8.6.9) id NAA08596; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:36:55 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:36:55 -0800 (PST) From: Bryan Ogawa at Work To: john@starfire.mn.org cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: 4Gb and larger drives? In-Reply-To: <199603011750.LAA24208@starfire.mn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 1 Mar 1996 john@starfire.mn.org wrote: > Someone has been trying to tell me that we can't use more than about 2Gb > of a single disk drive. I think that this is false, but I need to make > a purchase recommendation in the next couple of hours, and have no > personal experience to confirm or deny this. I would love to hear > from someone using 4Gb and larger drives, and whether you can have > single slices and filesystems which are 4Gb and larger. TIA! from one machine, running 2.0.5 RELEASE 13:26 /etc/raddb # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 297423 193986 79643 71% / /dev/sd0s1e 8052870 6059084 1349556 82% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc from our news machine, running 2.0.5 RELEASE news# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 49231 24942 20350 55% / /dev/sd0s1e 3891589 1147523 2432738 32% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/sd1a 8613379 4029394 3894914 51% /newsspool2 The caveat's I've experienced: 1. I'd recommend considering if your partitions can be backed up onto a single (backup medium of choice). Ours can't, so I'm using tar to do backups (so that they can be done automatically at night). Of course, this is probably just a matter of choosing the partitions properly. 2. Our news drives run quite hot. bryan > > John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services > E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417 > Bryan K. Ogawa Questions or Problems with NetVoyage? help@netvoyage.net Check out the NetVoyage HelpWeb at..