On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Stephen Borrill
wrote:
> Have I missed some context here? It is not complex to boot a BIOS-based
> machine from a GPT disk. That's what gpt biosboot is for. I've been using
> even on NetBSD 5 on a 4TB hardware RAID array (backported the
On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Michael van Elst wrote:
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
Now, installing a bootable netbsd onto such a disk is something else,
but as a data disk it's even easier than before.
I admit to not knowing how / whether that can be done, and from
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > Now, installing a bootable netbsd onto such a disk is something else,
> > but as a data disk it's even easier than before.
>
> I admit to not knowing how / whether that can be done, and from which
> version etc. Your existing
> Now, installing a bootable netbsd onto such a disk is something else,
> but as a data disk it's even easier than before.
I admit to not knowing how / whether that can be done, and from which
version etc. Your existing wiki page about "using-large-disks" is
useful; could you perhaps be inspired
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Michael van Elst wrote:
> Use the gpt tool to create a GUUID Partition Table and add a ffs partition
> covering all free space, aligned for 4k physical sectors.
>
> - gpt create wd1
> - gpt add -a 4096 -t ffs -l A_unique_name_for_it wd1
>
> On
acr...@gmail.com (Andy Ruhl) writes:
>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.
That's because MBR and BSD disklabel are limited to 2TB for disks
with a logical block size of 512 bytes.
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
=>
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch
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