From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 16: 1: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2137A37B72D for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp2.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.17]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA02826; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:59:55 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e63Mu3W74792; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:56:03 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:56:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: largest hd on 3.x-STABLE Message-ID: <20000704015603.A74484@hades.hell.gr> References: <200007030642.XAA32719@fusion.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200007030642.XAA32719@fusion.unixfreak.org>; from bhishan@fusion.unixfreak.org on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:42:01PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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