From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 21:49:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3241316A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:49:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B924543D53 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:49:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A0FC3A167; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:49:21 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: 9fsmDGpTZoOYOVlTAFyEtA 1100814560 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E54570159; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:49:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1CUu6j-00052J-8d; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:46:25 -0600 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:46:25 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: "David E. Meier" Message-ID: <20041118214625.GP3996@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: "David E. Meier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <2004.217.162.71.141.1100813306.squirrel@217.162.71.141> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LvAn5G4Ewe70kJ1i" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2004.217.162.71.141.1100813306.squirrel@217.162.71.141> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to create the partition. Too big? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:49:24 -0000 --LvAn5G4Ewe70kJ1i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:28:26PM +0100, David E. Meier wrote: > Hi folks, >=20 > I am trying to custom partition my 73GB SCSI hard drive using 5.3. When I > first create the partions using the Auto Default option I get the > following table: >=20 > amrd0s1a / 256MB UFS2 Y > amrd0s1b swap 2022MB SWAP > amrd0s1d /tmp 256MB UFS2+S Y > amrd0s1e /var 256MB UFS2+S Y > amrd0s1g /usr 67085MB UFS2+S Y >=20 > OK, so far so good but I want bigger /, /tmp and /var partitions. So I > deleted them and recreated them to the following: >=20 > amrd0s1b swap 2022MB SWAP > amrd0s1a / 512MB UFS2 Y > amrd0s1d /tmp 512MB UFS2+S Y > amrd0s1e /var 1024MB UFS2+S Y >=20 > Now, I just cannot create the /usr partition. If fails with: "Unable to > create the partition. Too big?" Although the top line tells me there is > 65805MB left which is less than the auto created partition... >=20 > Bug or am I missing here something? Thanks. Dave This isn't an answer to your question, but I have witnessed this behvior in the past, probably as far back 4.8. The only way I was ever able to get around it was to manually partition the whole thing. Modifying the auto-created partitions never seemed to work, and I got the same errors as you. Fortunately, it's fairly easy to designate 5 or 6 partitions manually. I don't know, but I would suspect that this is some type of bug or limitation in the program. I hope somebody else has a better answer. Nathan --=20 PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xD8527E49 --LvAn5G4Ewe70kJ1i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBnRgxO0ZIEthSfkkRAq4iAKCEI7GlSRmZxLxEseYpp4/0x0ErYQCfVzIG ypWQEALeF3WEkKb4sdDqcuE= =mk7Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LvAn5G4Ewe70kJ1i--