32bit filesystem limitations
Andrei Kolu
antik at bsd.ee
Mon Mar 30 04:41:50 PDT 2009
Ivan Voras wrote:
> 2009/3/25 Barry Pederson <bp at barryp.org>:
>
>
>> Is there any reason not to skip labeling/partitioning and use da1 directly?
>> Just newfs it and mount it. I've done this with a couple large Areca
>> arrays with no ill effect so far.
>>
>
> Nope, no practical reason. Skip the partitioning if you don't need it.
>
>
Finally: # newfs /dev/da1
a# df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
.....
/dev/da1 3.4T 4.1k 3.1T 0% /data
.....
Mission accomplished. But why sysinstall plays such an ugly game? This
problem should be announced as a bug.
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