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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:13:41 -0400
From:      Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystems larger than 2TB?
Message-ID:  <cone.1181484821.884802.9541.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
References:  <cone.1181435058.668170.9868.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <f4gttm$t35$2@sea.gmane.org>

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Ivan Voras writes:

> 1. don't use partitions/slices at all and create the file system on the
> raw device (i.e. newfs /dev/da0)

But how would one do this on a new machine?
i.e. If I am setting up a new machine with a 6.2 Stable CD.. isn't the 
install program  basically sysinstall?

Do I setup my smaller partitions such as /, /usr, /var, /tmp and leave the 
end blank and then use "newfs -s /dev/da0s1<letter> ?
Or perhaps creating a second slice for the remaining space over 2TB? 

Any man pages or URLs you know off that I can read?

So far the only thing I found was the "-s" parameter to newfs.
  
> 2. use GPT partitions.

What is the drawback of using that approach? 

Thanks much for your help.



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