Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1
Alexandre Biancalana
biancalana at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 21:16:59 UTC 2008
On 10/4/08, Don O'Neil <lists at lizardhill.com> wrote:
> >>> I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that
> >>> didn't help.
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot
> >>> off a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't
> >>> have direct console access.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Uhmm... This may seem silly, but did you use fdisk to create a slice
> >> first before you tried partitioning?
> >>
> >this is NOT needed. actually i don't do it anywhere.
> >
> >it just may be sysinstall problem, anything else.
>
>
> I tried using fdisk first, same problem, won't let me write to the disk.
Do you will use the entire disk in one partition ? If so, just do:
newfs /dev/ad4
Maybe you should to use gjournal for this large filesystem....
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