From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 12:24:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICO2.Partners.org (phsexchico2.partners.org [170.223.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC07337B406 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchico2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <2ZZZS9B7>; Wed, 29 May 2002 15:24:02 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1ADD@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: "'Lance M. Westerhoff'" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DB2 on FreeBSD?? Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:24:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lance M. Westerhoff [mailto:lmw188@psu.edu] wrote: > As long as I can partition the FS and as long as the DBMS I use knows > what to do with multiple partitions, I will hopefully be ok. > I'll check > though. That could be a very valid concern in this > OS-decision making > process. If I have a RAID >1TB, can I partition the disk > into smaller > chunks (as I probably would anyway) and still be able to use > FreeBSD as > the OS? Thanks for the heads up. As I recall, the issue was that you couldn't have any single mount (I'm a bit confused about the difference between slice and partition, so I don't remember which one it was) larger that 1TB. But I'm not really an expert on this topic, I just remember that the issue was raised... Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message