RE: problem creating filesystems on 10GB drive

["Rich Fernandez" <rfernandez@arrow.com>]

I'm doing a fresh install of 2.9 on i386 and I want to use the full 10Gb
capacity of my drive.
Not just the 1gb that's reported by disklabel.

I boot from floppy, tell it I want to use the entire disk for OBSD and get
put into disklabel.
So far so good.

But disklabel only sees a 1gb disk. Ok, no problem. I use the g option to
tell it to use what the BIOS reports as the geometry. Now the "c" partition
reports the correct size (c: 16450560).

So I go ahead and create my partitions:

a = 100m mounted on /
b = 128m swap
d = 100m mounted on /var
e = 2000m mounted on /usr
f = 500m mounted on /home
g = the rest of the drive mounted on /u01

then I wq.

newfs kicks in but chokes with the aforementioned errors.
I get a message that says essentially, fix the problem and try installing
again.

Is this enough information?

Thanks for your response, Nick.
I will take a look at the link you sent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-misc@openbsd.org
> [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org]On Behalf Of
> Nick Holland
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: Misc @OpenBSD
> Subject: Re: problem creating filesystems on 10GB drive
>
>
> You haven't indicated what you are trying to accomplish, or exactly
> how you have attempted to accomplish it, but hopefully, it is covered
> here:
>
> http://www.holland-consulting.net/tech/OBSDCommProbs.html#bigdisk
>
> (I'm assuming you are running i386 here...not aware of any other
> platform using the wd driver.)
>
> Nick.
>
> Rich Fernandez wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to install 2.9 on a 10gb drive.
> > disklabel shows the drive as being only 1GB (c: 2062368)
> >
> > I used the "g" option and told it to read geometry info
> from the BIOS (which
> > reports it correctly), but then after I've created all my
> > filesystems and wq'ed, newfs chokes:
> >
> >         wd0f id not found writing fsbn 208844 (wd0 bn
> 4980149; cn 309 tn 254 sn 62)
> >         write error: 208844
> >         wtfs: input/output error
> >
> > I searched the archives and found similar errors, but
> didn't find any
> > solutions posted in response.
> > The FAQ, likewise didn't have an answer.
> >
> > Can someone please point me in the right direction?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Rich
>
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