From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 18:39: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC26C14FF1 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA27827 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:38:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:38:46 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912170238.DAA27827@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxtor 40GB HD Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Heybey wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Andy Dills 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message