Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 18:17:30 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Matt Liu <MattL@ModaCAD.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to newfs HD >10G with 3.0 Message-ID: <36B965AA.16F15961@newsguy.com> References: <FF3D531B70BAD211AD580000F805EB760647A7@EXCHANGE_SERVER>
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Matt Liu wrote: > > I bought a fujisu 10G ATA HD. fdisked and then cannot newfs it. Some can be > newfsed, some cannot and give me a input/output error. > > It seems that it will newfs if I partitioned it into several small slice. > Look like you cannot create a single 10 G fs on the drive. > > can FreeBSD able to support to create a fs larger or equal 10G? > > I tried change geometry setting in the sysinstall fdisk screen. it does not > help. You failed to mention what version of FreeBSD you are using. There are many around, y'know... :-) I'm even amazed at how many bugs are reported for 2.2.7 and earlier... A "bug" is a "bug" if it exists in the most up to date -stable version of FreeBSD. Well, right now there are 3.0-STABLE and 2.2.8-STABLE, so things are a little bit more muddier. Generally speaking, I'd say the more up to date 2.2.8-STABLE, unless you are already on the 3.0 branch. Back to the question, I seem to recall a patch for >8Gb being applied to 2.2.8-STABLE. That's *not* the 2.2.8-RELEASE, the one that came on the CD-ROM. That's *after* the -release, which you can get on the Internet, by using cvsup, for instance. Check the handbook if you have any questions about this. So, if you are already running the latest 2.2.8-stable, and still have the problem, could you provide us with the other thing you forgot, namely the error messages? Last, but not least, this question is really more appropriate for -questions than -hackers. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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