From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 7:53:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9509137B42C for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f49ErrE32094; Wed, 9 May 2001 08:53:53 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200105091453.f49ErrE32094@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Damir" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition too big In-Reply-To: <200105090825.KAA24841@dioda.ibe.si> From: Chris Fedde Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 08:53:53 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 May 2001 10:24:53 +0200 "Damir" wrote: +------------------ | Hello! | | when installing freebsd I had a problem with Disklabel editor. | | When I tryed to make 250M /usr partition on 420M disk with 50M for | / and 64M for swap, I get an error "Partition too big". | How can I use whole diskspace? +------------------ This kind of thing happens when the sum of the partition sizes is greater than the size of the disk. I think that you are misquoting something here. The partition editor has an option to create a default set of partitions. I'd start by looking at those and making adjustments from there. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message