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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:21:57 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystems larger than 2TB?
Message-ID:  <f4gttm$t35$2@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <cone.1181435058.668170.9868.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
References:  <cone.1181435058.668170.9868.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>

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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> I many postings I have seen references of filesystems greater than 2TB,
> yet I have tried several times to create them and have had problems.
> 
> Is there a way to create slices and filesystems greater than 2TB in 6.2?
> Perhaps one needs to do it outside sysinstall?

Yes, you need to do it outside of sysinstall. There are two ways:

1. don't use partitions/slices at all and create the file system on the
raw device (i.e. newfs /dev/da0)
2. use GPT partitions.

The first one is recommended in 6.x.


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