Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:13:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Lanny Baron <lnb@heretic.cybertouch.org> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of slices Message-ID: <20000601101339.F16657@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005311121100.18076-100000@heretic.cybertouch.org> References: <393500C0.8423D96D@i-clue.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005311121100.18076-100000@heretic.cybertouch.org>
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On Wednesday, 31 May 2000 at 11:58:38 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Christoph Sold wrote: >> Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Sunday, 28 May 2000 at 23:08:22 -0500, BWS - Offwhite wrote: >>>> On Sun, 28 May 2000, Lanny Baron wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I wonder why when installing FreeBSD, when systinstall starts up, >>>>> and asks for partion (or slice) sizes, if you have a 20 or 30 GB >>>>> drive, you can tell it to use 10GB for say /usr or make a >>>>> filesystem called data and tell it to be 10 or 12 GB. >>>>> >>>>> Is there some sort of limitation on sizes of filesystems? >>> >>> There's currently a 1 TB limit. When it becomes an issue (or maybe >>> before) it will be lifted. >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>>> Of course I could have created a large 20 gig partition, but I like >>>> the fact that I get an early warning that the disk space is being >>>> used up. >>> >>> Ah. It's a complicated warning. >>> >>>> Perhaps my methods are a bit quirky. Maybe someone can offer a >>>> better way to go. >>> >>> It looks to me as if you need to look at quotas. >> >> Greg has it to the point: Use the tool that solves the job, not a side >> effect which reminds you of your problems. >> >> OTOH, in FreeBSD 3.x, the wd IDE driver had problems with partitions greater >> than 8GB. For FreeBSD 4.x some mails report problems with the ad IDE driver >> at about 32GB. YMMV. I do not know any such problem for SCSI disks. > > Well my original question stills has no answer nor a solution. On a > single 20 GB h/d, I am unable, when installing from scratch, to > select in the partition editor a slice for example of 12 GB for > /usr. I would really like to know just how to be able to get this > done without the message from the partition editor saying "size too > big". Thus causing me to make a bunch of partions as is shown: > > lnb@heretic:~$ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 99063 26991 64147 30% / > /dev/ad0s4g 2032623 1574956 295058 84% /data > /dev/ad0s4e 2480982 153064 2129440 7% /home > /dev/ad0s4h 6076005 2722946 2866979 49% /shared > /dev/ad0s3g 353023 1755 323027 1% /tmp > /dev/ad0s3e 5081581 1377594 3297461 29% /usr > /dev/ad0s4f 2032623 1 1870013 0% /usr/ftp > /dev/ad0s3f 1016303 5486 929513 1% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > It their is a way to accomplish this, please, by all means tell me what > must be done. > > I wonder what good reason there is for limitations on the size of > each slice when the installer shows the amount of space left, yet > you cannot use it in total. You're making a lot of assumptions here. I don't know what your problem is, but it's not what you think. > From a business perspective, if this drive was used for just data besides > the OS installed I would have a small /usr and swap with tmp and var > symlinked and all of the remaining space allocated to /data presumably > for a multitude of users accessing and writing to what ever was permitted > under /data. But as you see this can't be accomplished. No, I see that you haven't accomplished it. You've been around long enough to know that you need to give more details. What version of FreeBSD? What drive? What else on the disk? What exactly did you enter? Did you have some other geometry on the drive originally? Why did you subdivide into 3 Microsoft partitions? Typically sysinstall will offer you *all* the space on the drive, and it works fine for me: === root@wantadilla (/dev/ttyp4) /usr/ports/shells/bash2/files 19 -> df Filesystem 1048576-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 1984 1059 766 58% / /dev/ad0s1e 16490 7072 8099 47% /home /dev/da0h 16824 12178 3300 79% /src Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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