You want a GPT: man gpt. I also found an example at https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/mlelstv/using-large-disks/#index4h1 . Those should be enough to get you started. Good luck...
Gary Duzan => On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch => <jakll...@kollasch.net> wrote: =>> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 05:56:07AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote: =>> It's not uncommon for newer USB drives to present themselves with 4KiB =>> logical sectors, despite the fact that the disks within are actually =>> 4KiB physical sectors with 512-byte logical sectors. Some of our tools, =>> particularly back in the netbsd-6 days, do not deal well with =>> non-DEV_BSIZE logical sectors. =>> =>> You should have little to no issue with internal SATA drives, as most =>> of them present themselves with 512-byte logical sectors. => => I now have a NetBSD-8/i386 machine with a 3TB disk: => => wd1 at atabus1 drive 0 => wd1: <ST3000DM001-1ER166> => wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing => wd1: 2794 GB, 5814021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 5860533168 => sectors => wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) => wd1(ahcisata0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 => (Ultra/133) (using DMA) => => When I try to use fdisk to create a partition, it won't let me go => higher than 2TB. => => I tried just using disklabel as well, and I have the same problem. => => I see a Wiki page about creating wedges but it's talking about using => ccd and raid which I don't want to do. I just want a regular 3TB disk => with 1 ffsv2 partition. => => Where should I start? I'm not finding "official" documentation (in the => guide for example). => => Andy =>