Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:56:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@fusion.unixfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: largest hd on 3.x-STABLE Message-ID: <20000704015603.A74484@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200007030642.XAA32719@fusion.unixfreak.org>; from bhishan@fusion.unixfreak.org on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:42:01PM -0700 References: <200007030642.XAA32719@fusion.unixfreak.org>
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:42:01PM -0700, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > I am thinking about purchasing a new hard drive for my FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE > system. I have seen previous threads which complained about hard drives > greater than 40.0GB not working with the old wd drivers. > > What's the largest hard drive that anyone has not had problems with under > 3.x-STABLE? I had to do some magic to make a 9 Gb IDE disk work with the usual /stand/sysinstall from 3.0-RELEASE but that was not a problem of the wd drivers, as it was obvious later. During installation, I created partitions with the following sizes: / 200 Mb /var 300 Mb /usr 2 Gb and left the free space of almost 7 Gb, to move my /usr in there later on, manually. When I booted, and set the beast up, I created with disklabel a new label in the 9 Gb partition, and manually moved my /usr there. I moved /home/* from the old /usr one directory higher, and now I have a 2 Gb /home partition mounted, and those 7 Gb that sysinstall complained about 'partition too big' about, are my new /usr. I haven't had the chance to play with BSD on a larger disk, though. So, the largest slice I've succeeded to use so far is 9 Gb, with the largest disk label that I've successfully created in sysinstall's label editor (during installation) being something below 7 Gb. -- "The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death." > Pink Floyd, TIME (Dark Side of the Moon) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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