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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:02:21 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        JD <jd1008@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: help creating new gmirror > 2TB
Message-ID:  <CA%2BtpaK2TRGC=6Y9UnUkVHqq-oMdNYTmOwemhTWg=5WGOKq3ecQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 3:30 PM, JD <jd1008@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry to digress a little, but I have
> a 6TB drive, single MBR partition on a linux machine.
> I would be surprised if FreeBSD could not support my drive:
>

That is because of the following line.  Most drives still in-use probably
don't say the same thing.  The important one regarding mbr is the the
logical value.


> Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
>

To the op, you can use gpt then gmirror specific partitions.

-- 
Adam



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