Thanks, that did the trick!

Dave

On 11/9/19, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote:
> 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 <o...@drijf.net> 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> David J. Raymond
>> david.raym...@nmt.edu
>> http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond
>


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