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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>
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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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