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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding a BIG drive (SCSI), how? Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:43:54 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 43 Message-ID: <324B315A.2DDD@OntheNet.com.au> References: <R.Dy3ICz.3t9@rci.ripco.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: David Richards <dr@ripco.com> David Richards wrote: > > Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. > > 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 agree with you that fdisk'ing and disklabel'ing a brand new disk is painful. It's the sort of thing you would write down for next time, if only you had the time! ;-)) > I recall a 2GB/filesystem limitation in the past, and also claims that this > has been overcome in recent versions? > No problems here... I run multiple 4 GB file systems (news, www proxy). > 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? > I did some experiments with striped (ccd) 4 GB disks some time back. I can't remember having any problems. I was playing with filesystem parameters such as -b & -f and then doing mass file creates and deletes to see what the affects were. This was to test now news would run on a stripe-set with different interleave and filesystem params. Ultimately, I found that copying the existing 4 GB of news was next to impossible (time wise) and simply dd'd the existing par across on another 4GB disk, blew away all the bits on each disk that I didn't want and then remounted the news partitions! At the time I would have given anything for OSF's ADVFS!!! > Thanks, > > Dave > -- > David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three > My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago > But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased > dr@ripco.com (312) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail! Tony