Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:46:25 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: "David E. Meier" <dev@eth0.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to create the partition. Too big? Message-ID: <20041118214625.GP3996@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <2004.217.162.71.141.1100813306.squirrel@217.162.71.141> References: <2004.217.162.71.141.1100813306.squirrel@217.162.71.141>
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--LvAn5G4Ewe70kJ1i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:28:26PM +0100, David E. Meier wrote: > Hi folks, >=20 > I am trying to custom partition my 73GB SCSI hard drive using 5.3. When I > first create the partions using the Auto Default option I get the > following table: >=20 > amrd0s1a / 256MB UFS2 Y > amrd0s1b swap 2022MB SWAP > amrd0s1d /tmp 256MB UFS2+S Y > amrd0s1e /var 256MB UFS2+S Y > amrd0s1g /usr 67085MB UFS2+S Y >=20 > OK, so far so good but I want bigger /, /tmp and /var partitions. So I > deleted them and recreated them to the following: >=20 > amrd0s1b swap 2022MB SWAP > amrd0s1a / 512MB UFS2 Y > amrd0s1d /tmp 512MB UFS2+S Y > amrd0s1e /var 1024MB UFS2+S Y >=20 > Now, I just cannot create the /usr partition. If fails with: "Unable to > create the partition. Too big?" Although the top line tells me there is > 65805MB left which is less than the auto created partition... >=20 > Bug or am I missing here something? Thanks. Dave This isn't an answer to your question, but I have witnessed this behvior in the past, probably as far back 4.8. The only way I was ever able to get around it was to manually partition the whole thing. Modifying the auto-created partitions never seemed to work, and I got the same errors as you. Fortunately, it's fairly easy to designate 5 or 6 partitions manually. I don't know, but I would suspect that this is some type of bug or limitation in the program. I hope somebody else has a better answer. Nathan --=20 PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xD8527E49 --LvAn5G4Ewe70kJ1i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBnRgxO0ZIEthSfkkRAq4iAKCEI7GlSRmZxLxEseYpp4/0x0ErYQCfVzIG ypWQEALeF3WEkKb4sdDqcuE= =mk7Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LvAn5G4Ewe70kJ1i--
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