From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 3 21:40:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18673 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:40:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18667 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26214; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:10:16 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902031917.OAA20775@geek.grf.ov.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:10:00 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: Unable to newfs HD >10G with 3.0 Cc: FreeBSD Hackers , Matt Liu Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Feb-99 The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > 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. Hmm.. Well, I've put a single partition and slice on a 13Gb drive with no problems (post 2.2.8 anyway) The machine had a new motherboard tho (ie ATX PII) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message