Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:12:00 -0400 From: "Edward Capriolo" <edlinuxguru@gmail.com> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Large file system creation Message-ID: <cbbf4b570804081212i6dd026dds1f607a8ccd3717ba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080408153753.T23883@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20080408153753.T23883@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> 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'
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