Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:05:45 -0700 From: Scott MacFiggen <smf@activesw.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't partition last 4 gig or so of an 18gig SCSI HDD Message-ID: <20000413130545.C10562@activesw.com>
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Ok. So I bought an HP NetServer LPr this week and slapped in a HP 18.2 gig HDD. When loading FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE I decided to partition it with 500meg swap, 5 gig for the / partition and I wanted to put the rest into /export1. sysinstall complained that maybe the parition was too big so I tried smaller and smaller partitions until I was down to 8 gig. So after that I tried to use the rest for a /export2 partition and go an error message again so I left it and finished the install. The next day I got the second drive in, installed it and paritioned it as one large partition with no problems. So question is why can't I use the last few gig on the first drive when the second drive works great.. And they are the exact same model. The error message I got from sysinstall was basically ( Error, could not partition disk. Possibly to big? ) -Scott smf@activesw.com (I don't subscribe to the mailing list, please cc me on all responses, thanks) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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