From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 8:28:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camel.kdsi.net (camel.kdsi.net [206.103.113.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA7837B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcD-154.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.154]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by camel.kdsi.net (8.12.0.Beta10/8.12.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id f5EFV9Kv056495 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:31:10 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3B28D7C6.66AB0FFA@journalstar.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:27:02 -0500 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fdisk via /stand/sysinstall won't set proper disk size Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi all, I have an old 8G Maxtor disk I'm trying to install through /stand/sysinstall. I go to the Configure->Fdisk screen and it shows up as a 4G disk, so I set the correct cylinders/heads/sectors and then it shows up as an 8G disk at the top of the screen, but still only allows me to use 4G for a FreeBSD filesystem. Is there a trick to get this to work, or do I need to do this from a command line to utilize all the disk? If I have to do this from the command line, does anyone know the proper fdisk switches? Here's the layout of the disk: cylinders/heads/sectors 16383/16/63 TIA, Tony Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message