On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:41:18 +0200 
 Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no> wrote:

 > What is the maximum filesystem size in NetBSD/i386?

It's a 64-bit file system... but, I don't feel like doing the math right
now to give you the real answer... :-)

 > I have a 23GB Seagate SCSI disk I need to use as one big
 > partition/filesystem...

If you have a single 23G disk, it should work...

 > Is there any way to extend a filesystem across several physical disks in
 > NetBSD?

Yes.  man ccdconfig

dracul (thorpej) /sys/arch/pmax/pmax 273% ccdconfig -vg
# ccd           ileave  flags   compnent devices
ccd0            64      0       /dev/sd0a /dev/sd1a
dracul (thorpej) /sys/arch/pmax/pmax 274% df
Filesystem  1024-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a         39775    13913    23873    37%    /
/dev/wd0e        198455    59828   128704    32%    /usr
/dev/wd0f        148583     4914   136239     3%    /var
/dev/wd0g        889590   383395   461715    45%    /u1
/dev/wd0h        889086   432501   412130    51%    /u2
/dev/sd2e       2032153   943810   986735    49%    /u3
/dev/sd2f       2032153   321774  1608771    17%    /u4
/dev/ccd0d      8130664  3593736  4130394    47%    /u5
amd:85                0        0        0   100%    /nfs
lestat:/u1      2021802  1520827   399884    79%    /tmp_mnt/lestat/u1
dracul (thorpej) /sys/arch/pmax/pmax 275% 

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