From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 15:23:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E63D37B7A7 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.49]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:27:53 -0700 Message-ID: <3908BDBF.6BFE02C4@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:22:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to create partition - too big? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > I am using /stand/sysinstall on FreeBSD 4.0 to create a partition with > 5507979 blocks or 2689 MB (this is all the remaining space in my FreeBSD > slice). But it says "unable to create partition - too big?". What is > wrong? I guess the size limit of a partition is much larger than 2GB. The drive I have FreeBSD was first partition with DOS and formated. Win98 and NT 4 were added at that point. The drive was too small to add FreeBSD to it and was copied to a 20GB Maxtor. FreeBSD was used to add its slice. When I got through with that, the extended partition was added using Win 2000. Here is my fdisk jade# fdisk ******* Working on device /dev/rad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2491 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2491 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 63, size 4176837 (2039 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 259/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 4176900, size 26619705 (12997 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 260/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 15,(Extended DOS, LBA) start 30796605, size 9221310 (4502 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 4 is: A df shows jade# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 99183 38798 52451 43% / /dev/ad0s2f 1488607 5223 1364296 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s2g 10517574 2109755 7566414 22% /usr /dev/ad0s2e 496111 4889 451534 1% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/acd0c 646424 646424 0 100% /cdrom I broke up my FreeBSD slice by assigning MB's. Then, the last thing I did was add /usr, which was assigned everything that was left. This was all done with sysinstall. This drive had many problems with 3.4 but it has pretty much run flawlessly once I got used to the changes in 4.0. The main thing I can't do is burn CD-R's with it using FreeBSD. Something doesn't like my HP8100i. I save my iso image in the 3rd partition and boot Win98se and burn the cd. When I'm done with that, the system is rebooted to FreeBSD. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message