Re: Disks larger than 4 Gb

[kjell%jupiter.spacetec.no@localhost (Kjell Irgens)]

>4 GB * 512 should work fine, with the Berkeley FFS.
>
>> running newfs on partitions under NetBSD on my new 6.X GB Quantum drive.  
>> Small
>> 300 MB partitions works fine, but when I try to format a large partition of
>> 1 or 2 GB, I get something like "Cylinder group 1 is full" (not that exactly,
>> I will check it up if that is of any help), and if I try to mount the
>> partition, doing an ls there just tells me it is corrupt.
>
>Uh... the cylinder size is not relevant for addressing in the Berkeley ffs, but
>for parametrizing tables. Try changing the cylinder per group value (-c), the
>default is 16, making it bigger might help. Or, maybe, making it smaller.

Thanks, setting it to 32 solved the problem.  But the installation procedure
does not set any custom -c value, so I think this is something that should
be looked in to.

>       -is

Kjell Irgens, Kongsberg Spacetec