From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 06:22:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38AE16A469 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:22:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurdiga@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6911C13C480 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:22:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurdiga@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so355582uge for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:22:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BOGKypVKdYdFp2LQ4Uz0B90sGZjiCeBoLnKCxagh5NoYSiG08rNWwxug/3V/paOwCKgSZGtJQXYiTa5wCB5EsROERoWhuwlJQhw14/HHlvSF3xJwsgiqT+09algs0m7gTzWzp2mJtmxTjxTdck0qeaT89cPA4Iz5coLPxSiMxVc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CeVlLeuz/xHiJtmD7xv0s7ef9fUntB5es3Ga4cVH3n3vYIO3QXl6x4D9NHG8c4VZniEXiX4fy1uhp+dXUuz5DQ+QbUjpWSfdeSrxok+NDxoExUvf+o9DbIGZBm4kTa+KFILfYwBw9hVRzY/4YHIrBH+veu16CvNe2JMmpIlTX2Y= Received: by 10.78.204.20 with SMTP id b20mr72149hug.1181715761939; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.194.12 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:22:41 +0300 From: "Vlad GURDIGA" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200706121349.l5CDnLDN096045@chez.mckusick.com> Subject: Fwd: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB 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: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:22:42 -0000 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francisco Reyes Date: 13-Jun-2007 03:42 Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB To: gurdiga@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Enrique Ayesta Perojo , Kris Kennaway There is a simmilar thread related to filesystems greater than 2TB. The subject is: Filesystems larger than 2TB I started the thread and from what I can gather you can not have a filesystem greater than 2TB on your boot device. Also you can not use sysinstall to create the partition if it is greater than 2TB. > The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 Terabyte, > then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it cannot find the > disk). Split your drives. Make a RAID1 with 2 drives and install / /usr /var /tmp swap The second raid with the rest of the drives you should be able to create the partition manually, not from sysinstall. > Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger than 2 > TB? As far as I can tell no. As for creating the partition after you have a working system there were two methods mentioned. Was was using newfs against the raw device like newfs -s /dev/da0s2 The other one involves something called GPT, but seems like it is a more difficult method and it also seems like there is ongoing discussion about GPT. I also think, but am not sure, that it will be easier to have partitions greater than 2TB when ZFS is incorporated into the OS.