From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 00:42:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF9716A400 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:42:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E6713C43E for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:42:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix, from userid 58) id E31EBC2F2; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:42:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on zoraida.natserv.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME autolearn=disabled version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Report: * 0.0 DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME Domain Keys: policy says domain signs some mails * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (zoraida.natserv.net [66.114.65.147]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573A0C2AF; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:42:16 -0400 (EDT) References: <200706121349.l5CDnLDN096045@chez.mckusick.com> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: gurdiga@gmail.com Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:42:16 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Enrique Ayesta Perojo , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:42:20 -0000 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.