Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:22:55 -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: <3908BDBF.6BFE02C4@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004271718210.603-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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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.
Here is my fdisk
jade# fdisk
******* Working on device /dev/rad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2491 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=2491 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 63, size 4176837 (2039 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 259/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 4176900, size 26619705 (12997 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 260/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 15,(Extended DOS, LBA)
start 30796605, size 9221310 (4502 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
A df shows
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
/dev/ad0s2e 496111 4889 451534 1% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
/dev/acd0c 646424 646424 0 100% /cdrom
I broke up my FreeBSD slice by assigning MB's. Then, the last thing I
did was add /usr, which was assigned everything that was left. This
was all done with sysinstall. This drive had many problems with 3.4
but it has pretty much run flawlessly once I got used to the changes
in 4.0. The main thing I can't do is burn CD-R's with it using
FreeBSD. Something doesn't like my HP8100i. I save my iso image in the
3rd partition and boot Win98se and burn the cd. When I'm done with
that, the system is rebooted to FreeBSD.
Kent
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