Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:38:46 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxtor 40GB HD Message-ID: <199912170238.DAA27827@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Andrew Heybey wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> writes:
>
> > After fooling around with my problem (trying to create a 40GB fs), I've
> > found something strange. It feels like there is a hard limit somewhere
> > between 27 and 27.5 GB. If I make a FS 27.5 GB large, the newfs will fail.
> > [...]
> > This is backed up by somebody who emailed me stating that with their 27.5
> > GB drive, they had to leave off the last couple of sectors to get it to
> > work.
> >
> > So, is this a bug, a kernel config, or anything you recognize?
> > And, anything I can do to fix it?
>
> First, it is not a fundamental bug. Proof by counter-example:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ccd0c 66984252 4803840 56821672 8% /netvcr
>
> and there are others with much larger file systems than this.
Yes, it's obviously not a filesystem bug, but maybe a bug in
the disk driver. Would be interesting to see if the problem
persists with the new ATA driver in -current.
> Second, you did not provide any useful information to help anyone
> figure this out such as a) what version of FreeBSD you are using, b)
> exactly what arguments you are giving to newfs, c) what error messages
> newfs prints when it fails, or d) what your disk label is.
Regards
Oliver
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