Re: Partitions greater than 1TB ?

2011-01-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
It does the trick, thank you this could help http://romain.blogreen.org/Blog/Updating_FreeBSD_7_%28i386%29_to_8_%28amd64%29 On 01/25/2011 12:51 AM, Devin Teske wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:08 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm trying to install a new server ( HP Proliant 380 G7 ) w

Re: Partitions greater than 1TB ?

2011-01-24 Thread Devin Teske
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:08 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to install a new server ( HP Proliant 380 G7 ) which has > a 2.5 TB RAID Array. > > It seems impossible to use the Freebsd sysinstall to partition this > raid array disks. Correct. Currently sysinstall can only perf

Re: Partitions per slice limitation removed?

2009-10-27 Thread Andrew Von Cid
Hi, > No, you were not dreaming. When in doubt, check the source. From > head/sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.c [1]: > > "Allow bsdlabel to operate on labels that have at most 26 partitions by virtue > of there not being any (lower-case) letters avaliable for more partitions." > > [1] http://svn.freebsd.org

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> From: Nikola Le??i?? [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:13 PM > To: Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) > Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 > "Alexander Rudyk

RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)
, December 20, 2007 12:13 PM To: Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikola, > > Thank you for your extende

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikola, > > Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. > > Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t > know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:40:46PM -0700, James Harrison wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:26 -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: > > Nikola, > > > > Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. > > > > Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don???t > > k

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Brian
James Harrison wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:26 -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: Nikola, Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:17:50PM -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: > Hi all > > I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD and 2GB > RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will be used to web > development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music

RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:26 -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: > Nikola, > > Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. > > Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t > know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year > I have about

RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)
: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:17:50 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD > and 2GB RAM.

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Nikola Lečić
Apologies, two corrections: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:56:36 +0100 Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > /var's size depends, among other things, on how many logs you want to > keep there (where they live by default); since your machine will not > be a server, 512M should be ok. Please not

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:17:50 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD > and 2GB RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will > be used to web development (RubyOnRails), entertaime

RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)
Why /var partition is so big? How it will be used? -Original Message- From: Frank Bonnet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:35 AM To: Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: > Hi all &g

Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD and 2GB > RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will be used to web > development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music, video), > web browsing and em

RE: Partitions???

2006-09-22 Thread Brown, Steve
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitions??? "Now, some people sometimes leave a chunk of disk that is not allocated in any of the primary slices with the thought of adding another bootable OS at some later time. But that is a different story. And even then, if what you are doing unexpec

Re: Partitions???

2006-09-21 Thread xnow xsnow
"Now, some people sometimes leave a chunk of disk that is not allocated in any of the primary slices with the thought of adding another bootable OS at some later time. But that is a different story. And even then, if what you are doing unexpectedly uses up your space, you would just create anot

Re: Partitions???

2006-09-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:10:52PM -0300, xnow xsnow wrote: > First I'd like to know if there's a faster way to resize partitions than > using GParted livecd, and no i am not supposed to pay, also, why freebsd > has no resizer in its installation? There is, called growfs. But, its use is limi

Re: Partitions

2003-11-19 Thread Robin Schoonover
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:10:29 -0800 (PST), George Theodo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. I am using FreeBSD 5.1 for a couple of weeks now. My situation > is this, I have one hard disk with two partitions , one for WinXP and one > for FreeBSD where I boot each one of them. Also I have a secon

Re: Partitions

2002-09-25 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:37:21PM -0400, Jud wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: "John Wards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:25:51 +0100 > Subject: Partitions > > Hi, > > I need to resize my XP partition so i can install FreeBSD. I have l

Re: Partitions

2002-09-24 Thread Jud
-Original Message- From: "John Wards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:25:51 +0100 Subject: Partitions Hi, I need to resize my XP partition so i can install FreeBSD. I have looked at loads of partition software but they all want me to pay for it and