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From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards)
Subject: Adding a BIG drive (SCSI), how?
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I've added drives to FreeBSD before, and it was always painful, getting
the label added, etc. At least Sys-V systems tend to come with a single
utility program (script) that steps you through the process.

I recall a 2GB/filesystem limitation in the past, and also claims that this
has been overcome in recent versions?

Is it possible to add a 8-12 Gb SCSI-2 drive as a single, large,
filesystem to a FreeBSD 2.1 system? Is there anything special to do in
formatting very large drives?

				Thanks,

				Dave
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