From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 13:18:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janus.hosting4u.net (janus.hosting4u.net [209.15.2.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A072A37BD9E for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@friends-tv.net) Received: (qmail 13426 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2000 20:18:18 -0000 Received: from jupiter.hosting4u.net (HELO friends-tv.net) (209.15.2.9) by janus.hosting4u.net with SMTP; 13 Apr 2000 20:18:18 -0000 Received: from blade ([213.1.80.1]) by friends-tv.net ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:18:14 -0500 Message-ID: <052f01bfa585$e1eb9790$0100a8c0@blade> From: "Andy Coates" To: "Scott MacFiggen" , References: <20000413130545.C10562@activesw.com> Subject: Re: Can't partition last 4 gig or so of an 18gig SCSI HDD Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:21:34 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott MacFiggen" To: Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:05 PM Subject: Can't partition last 4 gig or so of an 18gig SCSI HDD > Ok. So I bought an HP NetServer LPr this week and slapped > in a HP 18.2 gig HDD. When loading FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE > I decided to partition it with 500meg swap, 5 gig for > the / partition and I wanted to put the rest into > /export1. sysinstall complained that maybe the parition > was too big so I tried smaller and smaller partitions until > I was down to 8 gig. So after that I tried to use the rest > for a /export2 partition and go an error message again > so I left it and finished the install. The next day I got > the second drive in, installed it and paritioned it as one > large partition with no problems. So question is why > can't I use the last few gig on the first drive when the > second drive works great.. And they are the exact same model. > > The error message I got from sysinstall was basically > ( Error, could not partition disk. Possibly to big? ) I got that error when first installing FreeBSD, and it allowed me to get around that error by choosing the order in which the mounted drives were created. i.e. I did / first, then SWAP, then /var, and finally /usr Not sure as to the specifics as to why it wouldn't, it just worked that way :) HTH, Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message