Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:36:55 -0800 (PST) From: Bryan Ogawa at Work <bogawa@netvoyage.net> To: john@starfire.mn.org Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 4Gb and larger drives? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960301133159.8083A-100000@digital.netvoyage.net> In-Reply-To: <199603011750.LAA24208@starfire.mn.org>
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On Fri, 1 Mar 1996 john@starfire.mn.org wrote: > Someone has been trying to tell me that we can't use more than about 2Gb > of a single disk drive. I think that this is false, but I need to make > a purchase recommendation in the next couple of hours, and have no > personal experience to confirm or deny this. I would love to hear > from someone using 4Gb and larger drives, and whether you can have > single slices and filesystems which are 4Gb and larger. TIA! from one machine, running 2.0.5 RELEASE 13:26 /etc/raddb # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 297423 193986 79643 71% / /dev/sd0s1e 8052870 6059084 1349556 82% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc from our news machine, running 2.0.5 RELEASE news# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 49231 24942 20350 55% / /dev/sd0s1e 3891589 1147523 2432738 32% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/sd1a 8613379 4029394 3894914 51% /newsspool2 The caveat's I've experienced: 1. I'd recommend considering if your partitions can be backed up onto a single (backup medium of choice). Ours can't, so I'm using tar to do backups (so that they can be done automatically at night). Of course, this is probably just a matter of choosing the partitions properly. 2. Our news drives run quite hot. bryan > > John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services > E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417 > Bryan K. Ogawa Questions or Problems with NetVoyage? help@netvoyage.net Check out the NetVoyage HelpWeb at.. <URL: http://www.netvoyage.net/~help/>;
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