That looks like what I need. I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot off of, so that's perfect. Now to just read some man pages. Thanks!
--Brian On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:39:48AM -0400, Brian McCann 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. > 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. > > > > > > -- > <Insert your favourite quote here.> > Erik Trulsson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"