Re: problems creating large USB file system

[Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:17:27 am Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Running it with no options hung after a while:
> 
> # newfs sd0e
> /dev/rsd0e: 476940.0MB (976773104 sectors) block size 16384, fragment
> size 2048 using 2588 cylinder groups of 184.34MB, 11798 blks, 23296
> inodes. super-block backups (for fsck_ffs -b #) at:
> 32, 377568, 755104, 1132640, 1510176, 1887712, 2265248, 2642784,
> 3020320,
> 
> over the next 45 minutes, it printed
> 
> ..............

I've had this problem when not explicitly specifying /dev/rsd0e for quite some 
time no-matter the size ... I recently formatted a 750GB usb drive with no 
issues. Admittedly it was a few kernels ago so possibly has no bearing.

Sarton