From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 5: 8:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE21837B7B8 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 05:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id QAA21765; Wed, 31 May 2000 16:10:52 +0200 Message-ID: <393500C0.8423D96D@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:08:32 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: BWS - Offwhite , Lanny Baron , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of slices References: <20000529140919.A2718@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 28 May 2000 at 23:08:22 -0500, BWS - Offwhite wrote: > > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Lanny Baron wrote: > >> > >> I wonder why when installing FreeBSD, when systinstall starts up, > >> and asks for partion (or slice) sizes, if you have a 20 or 30 GB > >> drive, you can tell it to use 10GB for say /usr or make a > >> filesystem called data and tell it to be 10 or 12 GB. > >> > >> Is there some sort of limitation on sizes of filesystems? > > There's currently a 1 TB limit. When it becomes an issue (or maybe > before) it will be lifted. > > [snip] > > > Of course I could have created a large 20 gig partition, but I like > > the fact that I get an early warning that the disk space is being > > used up. > > Ah. It's a complicated warning. > > > Perhaps my methods are a bit quirky. Maybe someone can offer a > > better way to go. > > It looks to me as if you need to look at quotas. Greg has it to the point: Use the tool that solves the job, not a side effect which reminds you of your problems. OTOH, in FreeBSD 3.x, the wd IDE driver had problems with partitions greater than 8GB. For FreeBSD 4.x some mails report problems with the ad IDE driver at about 32GB. YMMV. I do not know any such problem for SCSI disks. Have fun -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message