From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 19 2:51: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5490937B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 02:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from icomag.de (ns.icomag.de [195.227.115.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057E043F85 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 02:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bgd@icomag.de) Received: from localhost (bgd@localhost) by icomag.de (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h2JAp1iU034047 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:51:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bgd@icomag.de) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:51:01 +0100 (CET) From: Bogdan TARU X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Large disk problems Message-ID: <20030319113654.B32242-100000@fw.office.icom> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a 'backup box' which acts like a SCSI device with almost 2TB of available space. And, obviously, I would like to use it all. But I have encountered problems with fdisk (because of the number of cylinders, I imagine), and formatting the filesystem. So, I have the following questions: 1. Is there a 'modified' version of fdisk which works with large disks (mine is: da1: 2097144MB (4294950912 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 5204C)) 2. What kind of filesystem should I run on this thing? Is there any support for XFS or so for FreeBSD? 3. Are there any resources (documentation/mailing-lists/etc) which treat this problem? Thank you, bogdan ---------------------------- iCom Media AG Kirchweg 36 Koln, 50858 Germany Phone: +49-(0)221-485-689-16 Fax : +49-(0)221-485-689-20 Mobile:+49-(0)173-269-76-62 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message