Filesystems >1TB not possible on 6.0-R (anymore?).

David Kirchner dpk at dpk.net
Thu Nov 10 08:59:40 PST 2005


On 11/9/05, Barkley Vowk <bvowk at math.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> No. The installer showed only one slice da0s1d, and the whole disk was
> assigned to it.
>
> I'd check on the running box but:
> koth# disklabel -e /dev/da0
> disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported
>
> /dev only shows:
> koth# ls /dev/da0*
> /dev/da0        /dev/da0s1      /dev/da0s1c     /dev/da0s1d
>
> So I expect it is all assigned to the one slice.

Yeah, I would guess that as well.

FWIW, we've used FreeBSD 5.4 with >1TB partitions, and 5.4-STABLE as
of a few months ago. This was with a 3ware card. If something happened
to reduce the maximum slice size, it was recent.


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