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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!gail.ripco.com!dr From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) Subject: Re: SCSI geometry on 9GB Seagate X-Nntp-Posting-Host: foley.ripco.com Message-ID: <DJ1qtq.1v4@rci.ripco.com> Sender: usenet@rci.ripco.com (Net News Admin) Organization: Ripco Internet BBS, Chicago References: <49b1vo$3ha@news1.is.net> <49b57g$b92@times.tfs.com> <49bbml$4la@news1.is.net> <49jru9$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 05:20:14 GMT X-Ident-Sender: dr Lines: 25 In article <49jru9$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >David Bixby <bix@otcinc.com> writes: >> I have the same problem with both 2.1 SNAP and new 2.1 releases. > >For 2.1R, you can use the ``dangerously dedicated'' option. Go into >the partition editor of sysinstall, select A)ll FreeBSD, and answer >the next question with N)o. Don't blame me however if your messy DOS >later installed over this disk doesn't boot :) -- but i don't suspect >the user of a 9 GB disk to install DOS on it... > >If you're doing this at installation time, proceed as usual with Q)uit, >and then the label editor. > >If you're doing it on a running system, just W)rite the new partition >layout, and then leave sysinstall. Its label editor is not yet usable >on a live system. Instead, run disklabel -r -e on the disk. I know many other Unixes have a 2Gb limit due to the size of off_t- What's the maximum size limit on a single UFS filesystem? FFS? -- David Richards Ripco Communications Inc. My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago But they are available for rental FREE Usenet and Email dr@ripco.com (312) 665-0065