Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:53:25 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: The Unicorn <unicorn@blackhats.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk problem with LARGE disks Message-ID: <20011109225325.GB28829@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20011109235041.B28591@unicorn.blackhats.org> References: <20011109235041.B28591@unicorn.blackhats.org>
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In the last episode (Nov 09), The Unicorn said: > Hope this is the right forum for these kind of questions (although I > personally think it could be sent to the stable list as well). Oh, > and please reply to me directly please (perhaps with a cc to the > list), since I am not subscribed to this mailing list. That's standard procedure on these lists. > I think that fdisk can not handle disks which are larger than about > 66GB. I currently have a system with two MAXTOR 4K080H4 (80GB) > drives inside, but I can only use about 3/4 of the size due to this > problem. Since I really want to start making real use of this system > I am wondering if there is a workaround or fix/patch for this (and > NO, I really want to make use of the whole disk and not just > 60-something GB out of it ;-). I have used the fdisk/label interface in sysinstall to partition and newfs volumes up to 100gb with no problems. I haven't used fdisk in ages. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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