On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:03:49PM -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: > Trying to install 4.3 from scratch onto the machine I use as my home file > server, coming against a problem. The previous configuration was 4x160g as > a RAID-5 for OS/support/whatever, and 4x300g drives RAID-5 for samba. I've > changed the config so that it's now 2x160 as RAID-1, and 6x300 as RAID-5, > necessitating the reinstall. The problem I'm having is that the 1.5T array > now exceeds the install script's 2^31-1 limitation of an FFS filesystem. > Is there a way I can pass "-O 2" to newfs during installation (telling it > to use FFS2), or am I better off using growfs once the system is up and > running?
An FFS can only be as large as 1TB. You cannot change an FFS into an FFS2 fileystem and you cannot use FFS2 for any filesystems used by the installer. Just create the large filesystem after installation. But check the FAQ too, it contains som hints how to handle large filesystems. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive Summary: a large filesytem might not be what you want. -Otto
