Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:58:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to create partition - too big? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004281431320.4115-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <3909D61A.B409E0A9@3-cities.com>
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 > > > > Thanks. The above line shows that you do have a filesystem /usr with > > 10GB. I still can not figure out what's wrong with my machine though. > > Maybe it has something to do with my ASUS BIOS? This disk info is as > > follows: > > > > > da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > da0: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1500> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > > da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > > Enabled > > da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) > > > Do you have the scsi bios set to handle drives larger than 1GB. That > is the equivalent of turning LBA on. A df on my computer called ruby > has > > /dev/ad0s1e 11934818 1957696 9022337 18% /usr > /dev/da0s1e 4102037 436132 3337743 12% /usr1 > I have not checked my BIOS setting yet. But now I doubt if there is a bug in sysinstall. I can create a 2620MB partition, but not the entire remaining 2689MB partition. Maybe some roundup prevents me from doing so. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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