Re: How to create a large filesystem?

[Bernhard Moellemann <zza%serpens.de@localhost>]

Hi!

You wrote:

> How can I create (preferably only one large 5+ TB) filesystem on this disk?
> 
> NetBSD 5.0_RC2 (GENERIC) #1: Fri Feb 20 04:49:20 EET 2009
> ...
> 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
> [...]

I created a big disk (below 4 TB) with lvm a few days ago.
disklabel can handle only partitions up to 2 TB. But you
can specify -s to set the size. -F was not nessecary. But
you must use an FFSv2 (-O 2).

    Bernhard  //
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