On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:33:19AM -0400, Randy Lewis wrote:
> Using new 4.7 install with Dell Poweredge 850, Pentium-D, 1G Ram,
> 80GB root drive...works great.
> Added 2nd SATA drive, 2TB size.
> .....
> Fdisk -i - OK
> Disklabel, "a" partition (offset 63, normal), maximum size selected, etc.
>
> Tried countless approaches to newfs (and newfs_ext2fs) with basically
> the same result... cannot newfs more than ~= 950GB (after newfs...)
>
> ---
> Incidentally, newfs (8) claims -O2 for enhanced (FFS2), but will NOT allow
> an arg to "-O' greater than 1 (Good Old FFS.) This might be an
> issue. Might not,
> but it is inconsistent.
ext2fs != ffs. With ffs, -O2 works.
-Otto
> ----
>
> Any obvious thing I'm missing, because I cannot find any postings - anywhere
> that say this won't work..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Randy
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> # reboot
>
> Last login: Thu Oct 14 11:18:14 2010 from 10.1.0.218
> OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC.MP) #449: Wed Mar 17 20:55:07 MDT 2010
>
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>
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>
> $ su
> Password:
> #
> # newfs -O1 /dev/rwd1a
> /dev/rwd1a: 1907726.5MB (3907024002 sectors) block size 4096,
> fragment size 4096
> using 14905 block groups of 128.0MB, 32768 blks, 16384 inodes.
> newfs_ext2fs: wtfs: write error for sector -387943295: Invalid argument
>
> # newfs -O2 /dev/rwd1a
> newfs_ext2fs: format `2' (2) is greater than the maximum (1).
>
> # disklabel wd1
> # /dev/rwd1c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: ESDI/IDE disk
> label: WDC WD20EARS-00M
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 255
> sectors/cylinder: 16065
> cylinders: 243201
> total sectors: 3907029168
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> boundstart: 63
> boundend: 3907024065
> drivedata: 0
>
> 16 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 3907024002 63 ext2fs
> c: 3907029168 0 unused
> #
