On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 08:24:36AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
> Hmmm....
>
> On install of openbsd a second, non-boot 4 TB disk was initialized by
> fdisk in the usual way. My intention was to create a single partition
> and file system for the whole disk. However, disklabel limits me to a
> partition size of 2 TB. The c partition automatically covers the full
> disk, but I didn't think one could actually create a file system on
> the c partition.
>
> Is there something I am missing?
yes, use the b command in disklabel to make the OpenBSD partition
cover the whole disk.
b <Enter>
should do it,
-Otto
>
> Dave
>
> On 11/9/19, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 07:01:02AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
> >
> >> Does raid0 allow the creation of file systems bigger than the 2 TB limit
> >> of ffs?
> >
> > Yes. And ffs in general does not have that limit. newfs will move to
> > ffs2 if needed.
> >
> > -Otto
> >
> >
>
>
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> David J. Raymond
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> http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond
