Subject: Re: Huge (> 1TB) disk
To: None <yutaka@mailhost.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/14/2002 21:19:32
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:31:38PM +0900, yutaka@mailhost.net wrote:
> 
> 
> Thank you for your mail, Luke.
> 
> Your explanation was very clear for me.
> As I would like to have a *BSD box with huge /var, I would have to do
> as follows...
> 
> 1. Split the disk into two partitions. Partition 0 will be 120GB or
>    more and Partition 1 will be 1024GB or less.
> 
> 2. Install NetBSD into partition 0.
> 
> 3. Boot the box and do disklabel... OUCH!! NetBSD doesn't have the
>    name likek da0s1b like FreeBSD...

Not a problem, just edit the disklabel and add a partition with the
remaining disk space. NetBSD doesn't work the same way as FreeBSD
in this regard.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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