Subject: Re: 1.6_STABLE newfs panics with huge (~ 1 TB) partition
To: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/21/2002 21:11:50
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:49:23PM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After tweaking down my raid's partition size a bit lower than 1 TB (Is
> it still the ffs partition size limit?):
>
> # disklabel raid1
> # /dev/rraid1d:
> type: RAID
> disk: raid
> label: default label
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 896
> tracks/cylinder: 32
> sectors/cylinder: 28672
> cylinders: 74898
> total sectors: 2147482624
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 4 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> a: 2147482624 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 40 # (Cyl. 0 - 74898*)
> d: 2147482624 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 74898*)
>
> I tried to newfs it:
>
> # newfs /dev/raid1a
> Floating point exception (core dumped)
>
> What did I wrong!?
Did you try to change the newfs parameters ?
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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