Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:58:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@gremlin.foo.is> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystems bigger than 1TB.... possible? Message-ID: <20040218175850.GA30941@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040218101110.GB6490@gremlin.foo.is> References: <20040218101110.GB6490@gremlin.foo.is>
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--HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:11:10AM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > I've ran into problems using growfs to grow filesystems above 1TB, > is it possible at all to have filesystems this big or am I forced to > split things up? [9:56am] brooks@nmirror (/usr/mirror/scripts): uname -m -r -s FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386 [9:56am] brooks@nmirror (/usr/mirror/scripts): df -h /mirrors Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/twed0s2 1.8T 935G 772G 55% /mirrors sysinstall can't create MBR partitions larger then around 1TB, but you can install the OS on a small partition leaving the reset unallocated and then use the fdisk utility to create a large partition. In practice, you need 5.x to make this work. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAM6fZXY6L6fI4GtQRAvZ7AJ9J/RRYLmY/3+5D6oro/6ar9ws0yACfcl3b KicyeOtn+BIPV+oBY+NspsQ= =+5rp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD--
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