Filesystems larger than 2TB?

[Ali Mashtizadeh]

Hi Everyone,

GPT partitions afaik are not bootable except on EFI firmware (Itanium),
unless you make a MBR+GPT label. I think some machines like mac's do this?

-- 
Ali Mashtizadeh
علی مشتی زاده

On 6/10/07, Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:
>
> Ivan Voras writes:
>
> > 1. don't use partitions/slices at all and create the file system on the
> > raw device (i.e. newfs /dev/da0)
>
> But how would one do this on a new machine?
> i.e. If I am setting up a new machine with a 6.2 Stable CD.. isn't the
> install program  basically sysinstall?
>
> Do I setup my smaller partitions such as /, /usr, /var, /tmp and leave the
> end blank and then use "newfs -s /dev/da0s1<letter> ?
> Or perhaps creating a second slice for the remaining space over 2TB?
>
> Any man pages or URLs you know off that I can read?
>
> So far the only thing I found was the "-s" parameter to newfs.
>
> > 2. use GPT partitions.
>
> What is the drawback of using that approach?
>
> Thanks much for your help.
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