Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:51:34 -0400 From: "Ali Mashtizadeh" <mashtizadeh@gmail.com> To: "Francisco Reyes" <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: Filesystems larger than 2TB? Message-ID: <440b3e930706100751s1e44ecb3j4b9d7515e5a447d1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cone.1181484821.884802.9541.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <cone.1181435058.668170.9868.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <f4gttm$t35$2@sea.gmane.org> <cone.1181484821.884802.9541.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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Hi Everyone, GPT partitions afaik are not bootable except on EFI firmware (Itanium), unless you make a MBR+GPT label. I think some machines like mac's do this? -- Ali Mashtizadeh علی مشتی زاده On 6/10/07, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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