From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 09:58:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0139816A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E26DA43D1D for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:58:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i1IHwo2h020392; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:58:50 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i1IHwom0020391; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:58:50 -0800 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:58:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Baldur Gislason Message-ID: <20040218175850.GA30941@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040218101110.GB6490@gremlin.foo.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040218101110.GB6490@gremlin.foo.is> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystems bigger than 1TB.... possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:58:57 -0000 --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:11:10AM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > I've ran into problems using growfs to grow filesystems above 1TB, > is it possible at all to have filesystems this big or am I forced to > split things up? [9:56am] brooks@nmirror (/usr/mirror/scripts): uname -m -r -s FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386 [9:56am] brooks@nmirror (/usr/mirror/scripts): df -h /mirrors Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/twed0s2 1.8T 935G 772G 55% /mirrors sysinstall can't create MBR partitions larger then around 1TB, but you can install the OS on a small partition leaving the reset unallocated and then use the fdisk utility to create a large partition. In practice, you need 5.x to make this work. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAM6fZXY6L6fI4GtQRAvZ7AJ9J/RRYLmY/3+5D6oro/6ar9ws0yACfcl3b KicyeOtn+BIPV+oBY+NspsQ= =+5rp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD--