Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:00:44 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?=A9imun_Mikecin?= <numisemis@gmail.com> To: umar <unix.co@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8TB Partition Problem Message-ID: <667290D4-6F62-41C4-A690-28FC11C2AD5F@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1319110626566-4921174.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1319110626566-4921174.post@n5.nabble.com>
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On 20. lis. 2011., at 13:37, umar wrote: >=20 > After the installation I have tried to create new partition on 8TB = drive > through sysinstall but its not working. Then I tried bsdlable but its = also > failed below is the error message of bsdlable. >=20 > bsdlabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported >=20 > Would you please help me how i can solve this problem. If freebsd is = not > supported 8 TB then which Linux is supporting so I can move to Linux Disks larger than 2TB should be partitioned using GPT instead of MBR. It = doesn't matter if you are using FreeBSD or Linux. Instead of using sysinstall and/or bsdlabel for partitioning, you should = partition your disk using GPT, see gpart(8).
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