Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:28:32 -0400 From: "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: Filesystems larger than 2TB? Message-ID: <20070610142832.11ecfaff@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <cone.1181484821.884802.9541.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <cone.1181435058.668170.9868.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <f4gttm$t35$2@sea.gmane.org> <cone.1181484821.884802.9541.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:13:41 -0400 Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> wrote: > Ivan Voras writes: > > > 1. don't use partitions/slices at all and create the file system > > on the raw device (i.e. newfs /dev/da0) > > But how would one do this on a new machine? > i.e. If I am setting up a new machine with a 6.2 Stable CD.. isn't > the install program basically sysinstall? > > Do I setup my smaller partitions such as /, /usr, /var, /tmp and > leave the end blank and then use "newfs -s /dev/da0s1<letter> ? > Or perhaps creating a second slice for the remaining space over > 2TB? > > Any man pages or URLs you know off that I can read? > > So far the only thing I found was the "-s" parameter to newfs. > > > 2. use GPT partitions. > > What is the drawback of using that approach? In such a situation, I would seperate the data drives and the OS drives, instead of having them in one big raid. This makes it a lot more manageable.
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