Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:01:09 +1000 (EST) From: hburton@mraentertainment.com To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB! Message-ID: <49525.203.206.217.188.1186441269.squirrel@mail.mraentertainment.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0708052356t26b36bd8r36b76c3bc0384e71@mail.gmail.com> References: <EF5319EE-01C3-4431-8C90-DD28FC800D90@mraentertainment.com> <46B6B171.5000708@riderway.com> <1918FC18-18E2-4163-A78A-6EA4A807BCE5@mraentertainment.com> <d7195cff0708052307t72d10142qcb6df708b4a1d050@mail.gmail.com> <98148EE5-2AE8-4EF3-8CF3-225CAF8C07C9@mraentertainment.com> <d7195cff0708052356t26b36bd8r36b76c3bc0384e71@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks for the help. I will look into that further ;) > On 06/08/07, Hartleigh Burton <hburton@mraentertainment.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the tip. >> >> # /dev/da1s1: >> 8 partitions: >> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] >> c: 3029130401 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, >> don't edit >> d: 3029130401 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 >> >> Unfortunately for me, I do not really know what I am looking at here. >> > > I just noticed from man 8 bsdlabel: > > COMPATIBILITY > Due to the use of an u_int32_t to store the number of sectors, BSD > labels > are restricted to a maximum of 2^32-1 sectors. This usually means > 2TB of > disk space. Larger disks should be partitioned using another method > such > as gpt(8). > > I suspect this applies to amd64. man 8 fdisk makes no > mention of data size problems, but I would suspect it as > well. > > -- > -- >
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