Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:38:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Large file system creation Message-ID: <20080408153753.T23883@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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>> Hi all. I'm trying to create a ~9TB partition on a new file server. >> I thought FreeBSD now supported this (I'm on 7.0), but I can't figure >> it out. I go into sysinstall, create the partition in fdisk using "A >> = Use Entire Disk), write it to disk, exit sysinstall and re-run >> it...and sysinstall doesn't show what it showed before I exited last >> time. >> >> Can someone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong here? >> > > The filesystem (UFS2) supports disks larger than 2TB, but fdisk(8) and > bsdlabel(8) (which are what sysinstall uses to partition the disk) do not > support disks larger than 2TB due to limitations in the on-disk format they > use. > > You will need to use gpt(8) instead to partition your disk. or don't partition at all > This cannot be done from sysinstall and you normally cannot boot from > a gpt(8)-partitioned disk due to lack of support in the BIOS of most PC. or use old disk, pendrive, DVD-ROM etc. for booting
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