From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 00:31:26 2010 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 C9F41106564A for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 00:31:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C22B8FC13 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 00:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696DC162; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:14:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:14:12 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: LL3oorHdYlazkmT86HDIsNrPDbpkBWS500/xoUERHPWQ 1291421651 Received: from tcbug.ixsystems.com (174-158-170-239.pools.spcsdns.net [174.158.170.239]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 80A335E0AE6; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:14:11 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4cf8dbdd.7sbsexcxBlJtEO11%mueller6724@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <4cf8dbdd.7sbsexcxBlJtEO11%mueller6724@bellsouth.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1642129.yIELchBEGW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012031813.11266.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB? 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: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:31:26 -0000 --nextPart1642129.yIELchBEGW Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday, December 03, 2010 06:00:29 am Thomas Mueller wrote: > Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard > drive > 2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive > firmware can make sector size look like 512 bytes. I know fdisk can > handle up to 2 TB; this limit is not just for BSD but Linux too. >=20 > Western Digital has come out with a SATA hard drive of 3 TB. >=20 > Tom Sure. FreeBSD supports installing to and booting from GPT labeled disks th= at=20 don't suffer from the 2TB size limitation that fdisk imposes. The caveat i= s=20 that very few systems have a BIOS that can boot from a GPT labeled drive. = So=20 regardless of your OS, you may still have issues. It's worth noting that RAID arrays have been larger than 2 TB for years, an= d=20 the way RAID cards have gotten around the issue is to carve off a chunk of = the=20 array and present it to the OS as a small boot LUN. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel --nextPart1642129.yIELchBEGW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJM+YeWAAoJEKFq1/n1feG2cK0H/1uY+zCeSX/vp98kkz4L8nTK U8YgDZqu7kC2u0KLykvK9x5hb/shXBB7ZB5Renjc+QZxdexqhwefy21kL7uY5Xo5 VGoQZHX85LUyzHTpXrQFIPlZii/Oth9YjOfuUFkY6zpkye0c+kCN8P8UNpAlHRoX UgeLBPf4/LS2FeEgswizenjiC3easEKsZR/bFfvOZ8sZlG7vQg6Ujqqd2XeRCGWS IXGl7Q9OsiFT1RlgoJX5r1juq6jCnQlXfy1triHYIeCLCfi/DxL9LBc4u5aj1C5K XxdWiGDfVUDPiId5xd2do7TFIIArXTyEiOBzb7QZL+KU3cUqsAQyGITRTIKne1o= =Ohw/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1642129.yIELchBEGW--