hmm, on Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:06:24PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber said that > Scott McEachern <sc...@blackstaff.ca> wrote: > > > I'm trying to add a pair of 3TB drives to my workstation, which I plan > > on turning into a ~3TB RAID 1 array, and seem to be having difficulty > > realizing the full size of the drives. > > The partition table in the MBR is limited to 32-bit numbers. > 512 bytes/sector * 2^32 sectors = 2 TB > > In practice, fdisk -i will create an OpenBSD MBR partition of a > size modulo 2 TB. If you don't share the disk with other operating > systems, this doesn't matter. > > In disklabel, use the 'b' command to set the upper end of the OpenBSD > disk boundary to the entire size of the disk. You can then make > full use of the drive when creating partitions.
looks like a perfect addition to the large disk FAQ. -f -- if you live long enough, it will kill you...
