8TB Partition Problem

[Šimun Mikecin]

On 20. lis. 2011., at 13:37, umar wrote:

> 
> After the installation I have tried to create new partition on 8TB drive
> through sysinstall but its not working. Then I tried bsdlable but its also
> failed below is the error message of bsdlable.
> 
> bsdlabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported
> 
> Would you please help me how i can solve this problem. If freebsd is not
> supported 8 TB then which Linux is supporting so I can move to Linux


Disks larger than 2TB should be partitioned using GPT instead of MBR. It doesn't matter if you are using FreeBSD or Linux.

Instead of using sysinstall and/or bsdlabel for partitioning, you should partition your disk using GPT, see gpart(8).