On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:21:08AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > On 2020-12-22 23:58, Allan Streib wrote: > > Duncan Patton a Campbell <campb...@neotext.ca> writes: > > > >> fdisk seems unwilling to allow more than 2T in the partition: > > > > Look at the b command for disklabel(8) to set the OpenBSD disk > > boundaries. > > > > Allan > > > > yep. > fdisk can't do bigger than 2T because that's as big as the MBR tables > allow. But fdisk is only used to mark off the OpenBSD part of the disk > to keep other OSes from stomping on its space. If you are running an > exclusively OpenBSD system or otherwise keep the OSes from getting > confused, fdisk isn't used for much. Make it as big as you can, and > you are fine. > > disklabel, by default, only uses the OpenBSD fdisk partition, but you > can blow through that barrier with the 'b' command, as Allan indicated. > > If you are using softraid, you will have to repeat the disklabel 'b' > thing for the softraid disks, too. I usually forget that part. > > Nick.
If you're starting fresh, isn't it simpler to use a GPT partition table if you want to go past that limit? -- James
