From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 15:07:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6941065670 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:07:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C431D8FC12 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so1680257wra.13 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:07:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=vxELqCHPgRcljrShVjI6dAYkMpXuT53uxYkjVgz4VcE=; b=tk3DmYunFOHdFTI5yXsaS7tUgRwotp+rTqZ0956ukYCDHGDP+JApiXZ2KzFiJTXVOdmyMGUmcQE+MYLQlbyepQDIWOWaytQ0ktGI4G4sSFkBQ/KFch0ypFZNYPkQYjyUIyJvkk4+4TWhk/DKqsmjKNF932DRCKP1/waqCqPVN6M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KyyruGNI6f6QR96XQyy/MiDp9AAueFj5HbJ2qtwVOpojx4qOxTGEAQWI1AHqXvzaHbzbxsGBoMkvTx9cXNJxQ+aZEjg5R4t1H+PaL693K9bAeM21vh1b6VQ6ZS2LdCor3poEqCigNeZ+uljKy9Ej76//MSsw8xaom8hvRoXTxrQ= Received: by 10.141.211.13 with SMTP id n13mr2092289rvq.12.1207667245873; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.99.17 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2b5f066d0804080807q65ba3137xaece7196e7045f42@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:07:25 -0400 From: "Brian McCann" To: "Brian McCann" , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2b5f066d0804080539y7884709es46c8fd9cc2342aec@mail.gmail.com> <20080408133008.GA20818@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Cc: Subject: Re: Large file system creation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:07:28 -0000 That looks like what I need. I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot off of, so that's perfect. Now to just read some man pages. Thanks! --Brian On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:39:48AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: > > Hi all. I'm trying to create a ~9TB partition on a new file server. > > I thought FreeBSD now supported this (I'm on 7.0), but I can't figure > > it out. I go into sysinstall, create the partition in fdisk using "A > > = Use Entire Disk), write it to disk, exit sysinstall and re-run > > it...and sysinstall doesn't show what it showed before I exited last > > time. > > > > Can someone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong here? > > > > The filesystem (UFS2) supports disks larger than 2TB, but fdisk(8) and > bsdlabel(8) (which are what sysinstall uses to partition the disk) do not > support disks larger than 2TB due to limitations in the on-disk format they > use. > > You will need to use gpt(8) instead to partition your disk. > This cannot be done from sysinstall and you normally cannot boot from > a gpt(8)-partitioned disk due to lack of support in the BIOS of most PC. > > > > > > -- > > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"