Re: addressing > 2 TB storage

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>]

On 6/10/13 12:57 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> cal lawton <cal%iglou.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > Imagine my surpise when I discovered that I can't see more than two
> > terabytes….well 1.9 TB really.
> >
> > My google-fu is usually strong in solving things like this, so I hope
> > someone from the community has a technique, because I'm not seeing it.
> >
> > The hardware setup is simple: esata system from SansDigital set to
> > R5. The subsystem is working as my Mac can partition to 12 TB without
> > error, same for MS Windows.
> Basically, see gpt(8).   Using gpt, you can have partitions larger than
> 2T.   However, there is not as far as I know support for booting from
> GPT.

There is some boot-from-gpt support;  I'm successfully doing it on one 
machine where all the disks are GPT.

See the "biosboot" option for gpt(8), and this (very terse) wiki page:

http://wiki.netbsd.org/users/jakllsch/gptboot/

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