Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:20:56 -0800 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystems >1TB not possible on 6.0-R (anymore?). Message-ID: <35c231bf0511091220y76f93b7an687f2f249a8f710e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051109130654.R3622@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> References: <20051109113648.D3622@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> <35c231bf0511091204t60817b15v6934e41323f4060a@mail.gmail.com> <20051109130654.R3622@3jane.math.ualberta.ca>
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On 11/9/05, Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> wrote: > No. The installer showed only one slice da0s1d, and the whole disk was > assigned to it. > > I'd check on the running box but: > koth# disklabel -e /dev/da0 > disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported > > /dev only shows: > koth# ls /dev/da0* > /dev/da0 /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1c /dev/da0s1d > > So I expect it is all assigned to the one slice. Yeah, I would guess that as well. FWIW, we've used FreeBSD 5.4 with >1TB partitions, and 5.4-STABLE as of a few months ago. This was with a 3ware card. If something happened to reduce the maximum slice size, it was recent.
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