Filesystems larger than 2TB?

[Zane C.B.]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:13:41 -0400
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? 


In such a situation, I would seperate the data drives and the OS
drives, instead of having them in one big raid. This makes it a lot
more manageable.