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Subject: Re: large disk support
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I would guess the partition is too large.  Did you try a 
dd if=/partition and see if it can read the entire partiton?

Roberto Ruffinengo wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>  is there any problem with large disks?
> I am not able to do a newfs on a 12G byte partition.
> 
> This is my geometry:
> 
> newww# disklabel wd0
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:   409600        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 25*)
>   b:   522240   409600      swap                        # (Cyl.   25*- 58*)
>   c: 26688576        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 1661*)
>   e:  3096576   931840    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.   58*- 250*)
>   f:  8849408  4028416    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  250*- 801*)
>   g: 13810752 12877824    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  801*-1661*)
> 
> and this is my error:
> newwww# newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 wd0g
> write error: 13810751
> newfs: wtfs: Input/output error
> 
> newwww# tail f- /var/log/messages:
> Mar 29 16:27:58 newwww /kernel: wd0g: hard error writing fsbn 13810751
> (wd0 bn 26688575; cn 1661 tn 73 sn 11) (status 51<rdy,seekdone,err>
> error 10<no_id>)
> 
> Maybe this partition is too large?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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