From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 19:35:25 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 3F5981065678 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5268FC0A for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:35:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so1799327wra.13 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:35:23 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=9iD4+odHU+m062i5JzwftaTKiTVPTQX/cfBNHrnxF80=; b=IbbhAhjF+Mt/zcfyw26lZCWU56ZnIzb4zI8DIVL2pp8+dX8Ptu6tUmTL8h9Wv/dtpwtUSaMHR6LUu3pTA0rR+2e+2IIJxP0MkS1PpJxeYIOlO2FwMdFtuPV/hh6wrsnc6YsfCFVtTIDwaLcx1QLN8swrx2RleQzdLiIQkxWpjD0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BFCbrCHj2tMEoLPn5qzLuJ5RpRLVd6v2qzgqOZ/Ary++PQjop+IIr2yuEseULJpMaS8sK/FysggnWhgWHABTCuupVZbxQT8Gyo0uhUbQDDUOLMmuCHym34ITPY21T6jnK1Z/QsxjG9A8+5R9vMBeqeEdxvb7QD98u3QWY0536AY= Received: by 10.141.123.4 with SMTP id a4mr2212457rvn.294.1207683323193; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.99.17 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2b5f066d0804081235n47c823f2jcc2b15d2d7f1e2fd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:35:23 -0400 From: "Brian McCann" To: "Edward Capriolo" In-Reply-To: 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> <20080408153753.T23883@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions 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 19:35:25 -0000 On our older servers that wouldn't even recognize a 2TB partition (which is where the OS was too), we used a CF card and CF card adapter to boot from. Slightly more gracious... On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Wojciech Puchar > > 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. > > > > > > > or don't partition at all > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > or use old disk, pendrive, DVD-ROM etc. for booting > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Seems like a shame to boot a nice 9TB disk pack off a floppy Disk or a > Pen drive. I mean you do what you have to but that just screams > 'workaround' > -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ 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"