Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:21:34 +0100 From: "Andy Coates" <andy@friends-tv.net> To: "Scott MacFiggen" <smf@activesw.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can't partition last 4 gig or so of an 18gig SCSI HDD Message-ID: <052f01bfa585$e1eb9790$0100a8c0@blade> References: <20000413130545.C10562@activesw.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott MacFiggen" <smf@activesw.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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