From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 3 11:04:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02390 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from geek.grf.ov.com (geek.grf.ov.com [192.251.86.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02291 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from pebbles (pebbles.cam.veritas.com [166.98.49.16]) by geek.grf.ov.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA20775; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:17:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902031917.OAA20775@geek.grf.ov.com> X-Sender: ksmm@mail.cybercom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:02:46 -0500 To: Matt Liu From: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: Unable to newfs HD >10G with 3.0 Cc: FreeBSD Hackers In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As far as I know, there are some limitations with the physical location of the slice that holds the root directory (i.e., the "/" directory). Unfortunately I'm not exactly sure what those limitations are. If anyone can clarify, I'd be interested in knowing this as well. --K.S. At 01:20 PM 2/3/99 , Matt Liu wrote: >I bought a fujisu 10G ATA HD. fdisked and then cannot newfs it. Some can be >newfsed, some cannot and give me a input/output error. > >It seems that it will newfs if I partitioned it into several small slice. >Look like you cannot create a single 10 G fs on the drive. > >can FreeBSD able to support to create a fs larger or equal 10G? > >I tried change geometry setting in the sysinstall fdisk screen. it does not >help. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message