From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 9 14:54:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE2A37B41D for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA9MrPO55256; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:53:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:53:25 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: The Unicorn Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk problem with LARGE disks Message-ID: <20011109225325.GB28829@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20011109235041.B28591@unicorn.blackhats.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011109235041.B28591@unicorn.blackhats.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 09), The Unicorn said: > Hope this is the right forum for these kind of questions (although I > personally think it could be sent to the stable list as well). Oh, > and please reply to me directly please (perhaps with a cc to the > list), since I am not subscribed to this mailing list. That's standard procedure on these lists. > I think that fdisk can not handle disks which are larger than about > 66GB. I currently have a system with two MAXTOR 4K080H4 (80GB) > drives inside, but I can only use about 3/4 of the size due to this > problem. Since I really want to start making real use of this system > I am wondering if there is a workaround or fix/patch for this (and > NO, I really want to make use of the whole disk and not just > 60-something GB out of it ;-). I have used the fdisk/label interface in sysinstall to partition and newfs volumes up to 100gb with no problems. I haven't used fdisk in ages. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message