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From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards)
Subject: Re: SCSI geometry on 9GB Seagate
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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?
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