Unable to create the partition. Too big?

[David E. Meier]

Yep, that did work. I did not delete the swap partition before. After
deleting all of the partitions I was able to create the table as intended.

However, I've installed FreeBSD in a similar way a couple of times before
and never seen this happen. Does anyone know the reason for it? Dave.

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:28:26PM +0100, David E. Meier wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am trying to custom partition my 73GB SCSI hard drive using 5.3. When
>> I
>> first create the partions using the Auto Default option I get the
>> following table:
>>
>> amrd0s1a  /        256MB  UFS2   Y
>> amrd0s1b  swap    2022MB  SWAP
>> amrd0s1d  /tmp     256MB  UFS2+S Y
>> amrd0s1e  /var     256MB  UFS2+S Y
>> amrd0s1g  /usr   67085MB  UFS2+S Y
>>
>> OK, so far so good but I want bigger /, /tmp and /var partitions. So I
>> deleted them and recreated them to the following:
>>
>> amrd0s1b  swap    2022MB  SWAP
>> amrd0s1a  /        512MB  UFS2   Y
>> amrd0s1d  /tmp     512MB  UFS2+S Y
>> amrd0s1e  /var    1024MB  UFS2+S Y
>>
>> Now, I just cannot create the /usr partition. If fails with: "Unable to
>> create the partition. Too big?" Although the top line tells me there is
>> 65805MB left which is less than the auto created partition...
>>
>> Bug or am I missing here something? Thanks. Dave
>
> This isn't an answer to your question, but I have witnessed this
> behvior in the past, probably as far back 4.8.  The only way I was ever
> able to get around it was to manually partition the whole thing.
> Modifying the auto-created partitions never seemed to work, and I got
> the same errors as you.  Fortunately, it's fairly easy to designate 5 or
> 6 partitions manually.  I don't know, but I would suspect that this is
> some type of bug or limitation in the program.  I hope somebody else has
> a better answer.
>
> Nathan
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