Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:01:19 +1100 From: "Tarragon Allen" <melange@n12turbo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: new install partitioning problem Message-ID: <004f01c0aac2$3d886460$0216a8c0@eburwd1.vic.optushome.com.au>
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Hi I've just purchased a 45gb IBM hard drive. I have decided to try out FreeBSD 4.2 . Presently I have a 5gb FAT32 partition at the start of the disk for Win98SE (so I can dual-boot and play games sometimes). I have dedicated the remainder of the drive to FreeBSD. My problem is this: I can boot the FreeBSD install floppies, and it gets to the part where you have to divide up the FreeBSD slice into seperate partitions. If I tell it to auto-create, all is fine except that I don't particularly like having a root partition of 20mb, or a /var partition of 50mb - so I decided to delete those automatic partitons and create a table thus (38gb free on disk): 5000mb FAT32 1024mb / 512mb (swap) 2048mb /var 512mb /tmp 10480mb /usr 19000mb /home (the last figure is approximate, the aim was to allocate the remainder of the disk to /home). I can create all these partitions fine, except the last one, which always complains about "Can't create partition, too large?". I can create the last partition if I leave about 2 gb at the end of the disk, but this is unacceptable to me. Can someone explain why it won't let me use the entirety of the disk if I partition it manually, yet it is quite happy to use the whole disk if it does it automatically? Frustrated, t To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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