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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:58:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to create partition - too big?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004281052020.3496-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3908BDBF.6BFE02C4@3-cities.com>

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote:

> Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> > 
> > I am using /stand/sysinstall on FreeBSD 4.0 to create a partition with
> > 5507979 blocks or 2689 MB (this is all the remaining space in my FreeBSD
> > slice).  But it says "unable to create partition - too big?".  What is
> > wrong?  I guess the size limit of a partition is much larger than 2GB.
> 
> The drive I have FreeBSD was first partition with DOS and formated.
> Win98 and NT 4 were added at that point. The drive was too small to
> add FreeBSD to it and was copied to a 20GB Maxtor. FreeBSD was used to
> add its slice. When I got through with that, the extended partition
> was added using Win 2000. 
> 
> jade# df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s2a     99183    38798    52451    43%    /
> /dev/ad0s2f   1488607     5223  1364296     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s2g  10517574  2109755  7566414    22%    /usr

Thanks.  The above line shows that you do have a filesystem /usr with
10GB. I still can not figure out what's wrong with my machine though.
Maybe it has something to do with my ASUS BIOS?   This disk info is as
follows:

da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1500> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
Enabled
da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)

-Zhihui



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