Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:54:22 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to create partition - too big? Message-ID: <3909EC6E.E312FC3B@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004281431320.4115-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I am using /stand/sysinstall on FreeBSD 4.0 to create a partition with > > > > > 5507979 blocks or 2689 MB (this is all the remaining space in my FreeBSD > > > > > slice). But it says "unable to create partition - too big?". What is > > > > > wrong? I guess the size limit of a partition is much larger than 2GB. > > > > > > > > The drive I have FreeBSD was first partition with DOS and formated. > > > > Win98 and NT 4 were added at that point. The drive was too small to > > > > add FreeBSD to it and was copied to a 20GB Maxtor. FreeBSD was used to > > > > add its slice. When I got through with that, the extended partition > > > > was added using Win 2000. > > > > > > > > jade# df > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > > > /dev/ad0s2a 99183 38798 52451 43% / > > > > /dev/ad0s2f 1488607 5223 1364296 0% /tmp > > > > /dev/ad0s2g 10517574 2109755 7566414 22% /usr > > > > > > Thanks. The above line shows that you do have a filesystem /usr with > > > 10GB. I still can not figure out what's wrong with my machine though. > > > Maybe it has something to do with my ASUS BIOS? This disk info is as > > > follows: > > > > > > > > da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > > da0: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1500> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > > > da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > > > Enabled > > > da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) > > > > > > Do you have the scsi bios set to handle drives larger than 1GB. That > > is the equivalent of turning LBA on. A df on my computer called ruby > > has > > > > /dev/ad0s1e 11934818 1957696 9022337 18% /usr > > /dev/da0s1e 4102037 436132 3337743 12% /usr1 > > > > I have not checked my BIOS setting yet. But now I doubt if there is a bug > in sysinstall. I can create a 2620MB partition, but not the entire > remaining 2689MB partition. Maybe some roundup prevents me from doing so. There was always some space at the end that you couldn't get to. When you use LBA, you can have some inaccessable areas. The end of a partition has always appeared to be on sector 63 and LBA may not map 2689MB exactly. Kent > > -Zhihui -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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