> So, are my feelings right that in order to bring in use into machine total
> storage greater than 1T and gain access in the middle to some redundancy,
> the best way is make slices and concatenate them under vinum to get
> multiple stripes each <1T in size?
No. You cannot have a disk volume la
:> I thought fdisk slices were separate devices to FreeBSD so it should
:>be possible to put 1TB on each. Where did I go wrong this time, does FreeBSD
:>need to see the whole drive as a single device too ?
:
: They're only seperate devices in the same sense that a different partition
:is a
>DG> >JM> multiple partitions < 1TB on a disk/slice > 1TB in size.
>DG> >
>DG> > I posted the answer to the wrong question then - you will need
>DG> >multiple slices to do this with each under 1TB.
>DG>
>DG>That won't work either. FreeBSD cannot access blocks beyond 1TB on any
>DG> device. I
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:20:49 -0800
David Greenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
DG> >On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:21:37 -0800
DG> >Jaye Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
DG> >
DG> >JM> I dont' need a 1 TB FS, I just need/wanted to be able to create
DG> >JM> multiple partitions < 1TB on a disk/slice > 1T
t;
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 16:15
Subject: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB)
>
> Trying to disklabel a 1 TB disk (with sysinstall or disklabel)
> produces a lot of errors. In sysinstall, there's a kazillion
> overflows and negative offsets, and stuff.
>
> With diskla
Trying to disklabel a 1 TB disk (with sysinstall or disklabel)
produces a lot of errors. In sysinstall, there's a kazillion
overflows and negative offsets, and stuff.
With disklabel, it tells me that the partition size needs to
be truncated, then writes the label. then if I run disklabel
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