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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding a 4GB hawk to a current file system.  How?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 09:21:19 GMT
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kurktchi@qualcomm.com (Elya Kurktchi) writes:

> How do I go about doing this?  fdisk?  Basically I want to make it as one
> partition so it will be 4GB big.  Is FreeBSD limited to just 2GB?

It's not.  You simply need to disklabel your disk.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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