Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:42:16 -0400 From: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> To: gurdiga@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Enrique Ayesta Perojo <eayesta@portugalete.uned.es>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB Message-ID: <cone.1181695336.121741.47007.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <200706121349.l5CDnLDN096045@chez.mckusick.com>
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There is a simmilar thread related to filesystems greater than 2TB. The subject is: Filesystems larger than 2TB I started the thread and from what I can gather you can not have a filesystem greater than 2TB on your boot device. Also you can not use sysinstall to create the partition if it is greater than 2TB. > The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 Terabyte, > then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it cannot find the > disk). Split your drives. Make a RAID1 with 2 drives and install / /usr /var /tmp swap The second raid with the rest of the drives you should be able to create the partition manually, not from sysinstall. > Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger than 2 > TB? As far as I can tell no. As for creating the partition after you have a working system there were two methods mentioned. Was was using newfs against the raw device like newfs -s /dev/da0s2 The other one involves something called GPT, but seems like it is a more difficult method and it also seems like there is ongoing discussion about GPT. I also think, but am not sure, that it will be easier to have partitions greater than 2TB when ZFS is incorporated into the OS.
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