Large file system creation
Brian McCann
bjmccann at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 19:35:25 UTC 2008
On our older servers that wouldn't even recognize a 2TB partition
(which is where the OS was too), we used a CF card and CF card adapter
to boot from. Slightly more gracious...
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Wojciech Puchar
>
> <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> >
> > >
>
>
> > > > Hi all. I'm trying to create a ~9TB partition on a new file server.
> > > > I thought FreeBSD now supported this (I'm on 7.0), but I can't figure
> > > > it out. I go into sysinstall, create the partition in fdisk using "A
> > > > = Use Entire Disk), write it to disk, exit sysinstall and re-run
> > > > it...and sysinstall doesn't show what it showed before I exited last
> > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > Can someone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong here?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > The filesystem (UFS2) supports disks larger than 2TB, but fdisk(8) and
> > > bsdlabel(8) (which are what sysinstall uses to partition the disk) do not
> > > support disks larger than 2TB due to limitations in the on-disk format
> > they
> > > use.
> > >
> > > You will need to use gpt(8) instead to partition your disk.
> > >
> >
> > or don't partition at all
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > This cannot be done from sysinstall and you normally cannot boot from
> > > a gpt(8)-partitioned disk due to lack of support in the BIOS of most PC.
> > >
> >
> > or use old disk, pendrive, DVD-ROM etc. for booting
> >
> >
>
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> Seems like a shame to boot a nice 9TB disk pack off a floppy Disk or a
> Pen drive. I mean you do what you have to but that just screams
> 'workaround'
>
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