Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:43:28 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is the safe <2 TB number, precisely ? Message-ID: <ejksbq$vgs$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0611161246240.21120-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0611161246240.21120-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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Ensel Sharon wrote: > So the question is, do I type in 1999 ? 2000 ? 2047 ? 2048 ? > > What number is totally, absolutely safe and will shield me from _all > possible_ BIGDISK related issues ? As Eric said, the 2 TB issue is not tied to the file system. It's tied to the fdisk and disklabel. A perfectly valid workaround is not to use fdisk & disklabel to partition your drive, but to partition it in the array creation utility (safest) or use gpt (but you can't modify the gpt table if there are mounted partitions on it). Thus, you can do "newfs /dev/da1", "mount /dev/da1 /whatever", etc.
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