From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 8 19:14:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B28106566C for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 19:14:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505c.appriver.com [98.129.35.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5161E8FC08 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 19:14:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.15 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht02.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: 112 113 114 115 119 120 131 218 X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.15] (HELO ht02.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTPS id 19120288 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:14:14 -0600 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.164]) by ht02.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.15]) with mapi; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:14:09 -0600 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:14:05 -0600 Thread-Topic: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD? Thread-Index: Acp4N+ALi9T5PqmfSYuWRNSOEVA4KwAAlgQg Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D498@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D44A@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <20091208195424.850e8363.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091208195424.850e8363.freebsd@edvax.de> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-cr-hashedpuzzle: vAs= A21h BZJr Bvlt CDJ7 CN2V CnrY Dc3G Dj1Z FK6K GLLz G/m+ Hbbu H2S/ K1A9 LFxJ; 1; ZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAtAHEAdQBlAHMAdABpAG8AbgBzAEAAZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAuAG8AcgBnAA==; Sosha1_v1; 7; {E9262912-07B2-4B5A-A67E-65263F6913F0}; cABzAHQAZQBlAGwAZQBAAG0AYQB4AGkAcwBjAGEAbABlAC4AYwBvAG0A; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:14:05 GMT; UgBFADoAIABIAG8AdwAgAGQAbwAgAEkAIABjAHIAZQBhAHQAZQAgAGwAYQByAGcAZQAgAHAAYQByAHQAaQB0AGkAbwBuAHMAIABpAG4AIABGAHIAZQBlAEIAUwBEAD8A x-cr-puzzleid: {E9262912-07B2-4B5A-A67E-65263F6913F0} acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:14:10 -0000 > In the subject line, you wrote "large partition", so I assume you won't w= ant to boot from from the device, but use it as a big storage area instead.= Correct me if I'm wrong. For simplicity I didn't include all the details. In fact we need three slic= es, one for the OS, one for swap, and the rest for data. I can create the f= irst two slices the way I normally do using fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs. But I'm s= tumped on how to create the large third slice.