Unable to create the partition. Too big?
Nathan Kinkade
nkinkade at ub.edu.bz
Thu Nov 18 13:49:24 PST 2004
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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