Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?

2011-05-17 Thread n dhert
Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at the end. To see the actuel disk geometry, I used FreeBSDs sysinstall # sysinstall Disk name: ad0

Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?

2011-05-17 Thread Maciej Milewski
On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at the end. To see the actuel disk geometry, I used FreeBSDs

Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?

2011-05-17 Thread krad
On 17 May 2011 14:40, Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl wrote: On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at the

Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl wrote: On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at

adding new disk 2TB, gpt?

2011-05-16 Thread n dhert
I have a running FreeBSD-8.2-amd system, FreeBSD was installed in jan 2009 (then FreeBSD 7.0), which a fisk disk of 200 GB for /, swap /usr /var /tmp. Later that month, I added a 9 TB disk using /sbin/gpt (since sysinstall uses bsdlabel/fdisk, it can't create disks larger than 2 TB) I want to add

Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?

2011-05-16 Thread Robert Simmons
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: I have a running FreeBSD-8.2-amd system, FreeBSD was installed in jan 2009 (then FreeBSD 7.0), which a fisk disk of 200 GB for /, swap /usr /var /tmp. Later that month, I added a 9 TB disk using /sbin/gpt (since sysinstall