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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:06:46 -0500
From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
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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