From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 17:36:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08300 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:36:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hermes.gfit.net ([204.246.249.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08295 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:36:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fassett@gfit.com) Received: from zeus (PPP38.fortworth.nationwide.net [204.155.159.48]) by hermes.gfit.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA26208; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:31:15 -0500 (EST) From: "George C. Fassett, Jr." To: Cc: Subject: Question about 17.2 gig Ultra ATA / Maxtor DiamondMax 4320 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:37:52 -0500 Message-ID: <000801be1742$ab52c000$3264ed8a@zeus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01BE1718.C27E3EA0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 00000000722E650B5E4DD111BA4F44455354000084A32400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01BE1718.C27E3EA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have recently purchased a brand new Dell Dimension XPS vPii350 w/ 128mg of ram and the largest harddisk I could -- we are currently running a FreeBSD v2.2.x Server on an older 200 mhz MMX. with 4gig. The new computer has come with a Maxtor DiamondMax 4320, which by convention is breaking the 8.4 gig limits. The BIOS is recognizing the harddisk correctly, and showing it to be of 17.2gig, but we cannot get the partition manager to allow us more than 8gig partition. We have tryed manually entering the drives geometry, but that is not doing the trick. Do you know of any support documents, or know an answer to this problem. As you might imagine, we are hoping to use all 17gig of harddisk space. We would like to cut the drive in 1/2, using 8gig for the /usr and split the other 8 gig up between /var and /scr If you know of a document that would help us in accomplishing this, we appreciate it. And we are trying to use the holiday to configure this -- for whatever reason I did not think this was going to be a problem. And of course we have larger problems of moving from one machine to the other to face, so any help, direction, documents, etc. that you might be able to send my way, I really appreciate it. Thanks George Fassett -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- George C. Fassett, Jr. | fassett@gfit.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- G. 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