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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding a BIG drive (SCSI), how?
Date: 21 Sep 1996 21:58:33 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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dr@ripco.com (David Richards) writes:

>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?

You treat it completly normally - we have a 3.8GB files system here,
and the people down the way have a 12GB news spool ( striped across
sevral disks ).

	David.