Subject: Re: 1.6_STABLE newfs panics with huge (~ 1 TB) partition
To: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/21/2002 21:11:50
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:49:23PM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After tweaking down my raid's partition size a bit lower than 1 TB (Is
> it still the ffs partition size limit?):
> 
>   # disklabel raid1
>   # /dev/rraid1d:
>   type: RAID
>   disk: raid
>   label: default label
>   flags:
>   bytes/sector: 512
>   sectors/track: 896
>   tracks/cylinder: 32
>   sectors/cylinder: 28672
>   cylinders: 74898
>   total sectors: 2147482624
>   rpm: 3600
>   interleave: 1
>   trackskew: 0
>   cylinderskew: 0
>   headswitch: 0           # microseconds
>   track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
>   drivedata: 0 
>   
>   4 partitions:
>   #        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>    a: 2147482624         0     4.2BSD   2048 16384    40   # (Cyl.    0 - 74898*)
>    d: 2147482624         0     4.2BSD      0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 74898*)
> 
> I tried to newfs it:
> 
>   # newfs /dev/raid1a 
>   Floating point exception (core dumped)
> 
> What did I wrong!?

Did you try to change the newfs parameters ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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