From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 21:56:11 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 A7B8216A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:56:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from serv03.inetworx.ch (serv03.inetworx.ch [212.254.227.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362B443D62 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:56:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@eth0.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by serv03.inetworx.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64564252D75 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:56:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from serv03.inetworx.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (serv03.inetworx.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13627-01-2 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:56:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.inetworx.ch (serv04.inetworx.ch [212.254.227.197]) by serv03.inetworx.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCCE252D63 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:56:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from 217.162.71.141 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dev.eth0); by www.inetworx.ch with HTTP; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:56:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3145.217.162.71.141.1100814970.squirrel@217.162.71.141> In-Reply-To: <20041118214625.GP3996@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <2004.217.162.71.141.1100813306.squirrel@217.162.71.141> <20041118214625.GP3996@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:56:10 +0100 (CET) From: "David E. Meier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at inetworx.ch Subject: Re: Unable to create the partition. Too big? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:56:11 -0000 Yep, that did work. I did not delete the swap partition before. After deleting all of the partitions I was able to create the table as intended. However, I've installed FreeBSD in a similar way a couple of times before and never seen this happen. Does anyone know the reason for it? Dave. > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:28:26PM +0100, David E. Meier wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> 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: >> >> 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 >> >> OK, so far so good but I want bigger /, /tmp and /var partitions. So I >> deleted them and recreated them to the following: >> >> amrd0s1b swap 2022MB SWAP >> amrd0s1a / 512MB UFS2 Y >> amrd0s1d /tmp 512MB UFS2+S Y >> amrd0s1e /var 1024MB UFS2+S Y >> >> 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... >> >> 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 > -- > PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49 >