Re: SOLVED (Re: How to create a large filesystem?)

[Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen%iki.fi@localhost>]

Brook Milligan wrote:

>  > ### After fresh NetBSD/amd64 5.0 installation
>  > # dmesg | grep sd0
>  > sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 5/i, 1.03> disk fixed
>  > sd0: fabricating a geometry
>  > sd0: 5586 GB, 5720064 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 11714691072 
> sectors
>  > sd0: fabricating a geometry
>  > sd0: mbr partition exceeds disk size
>  > sd0: GPT GUID: 95027669-f71d-4a6f-9312-a1c4e5746c7e
>  > dk0 at sd0: 4d4bdea5-b403-4de4-bf43-891756465be0
>
> Sorry to be naive, but how did you get the dk0 device?  Are you using 
>
>       options DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER
>
> in your kernel.

# uname -srm
NetBSD 5.0_RC2 amd64

# grep DKWEDGE /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC
options         DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER    # Automatically add dk(4) instances
options         DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT      # Supports GPT partitions as wedges
#options        DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL # Support disklabel entries as wedges
#options        DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR      # Support MBR partitions as wedges

Martti