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Date:      Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:06:46 -0500
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Jim Pazarena <famd64@paz.bz>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2 Tb limit
Message-ID:  <20120114040646.GA99101@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F10FB1A.2060609@paz.bz>
References:  <4F10FB1A.2060609@paz.bz>

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:48:42PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> Is there any way to create file systems bigger than 2Tb?
> I was hoping that a 64-bit OS may have this ability.
> 
> I have a ProLiant rack server which I installed a 4Tb raid
> -before- I discovered that I couldn't exceed 2Tb.

FreeBSD can use filesystems many times larger than 2TiB, however
I suspect the problem you are running into is with the default 
MBR partition table which is limited to 2TIB.  Try using a GPT
partition table instead.

Regards,

Gary



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