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by **David Dani** » Fri, 15 Dec 1995 04:00:00

Have a seagate 9G drive that is partition into 4 2Gigs and 1Gig, I
really wanted on great big partition, but 2.3 wouldn't allow that, or
so I thought. Can anyone tell if 2.3 will allow this, and if so how do
you do it, everytime I tried it would not recognize more than 2Gigs.
If 2.3 solaris won't I have heard that solaris 2.4 will, does anyone if
this is true?

THANKS
DAVID

by **Andrew R. Tef** » Sat, 16 Dec 1995 04:00:00

Quote:>Have a seagate 9G drive that is partition into 4 2Gigs and 1Gig, I
>really wanted on great big partition, but 2.3 wouldn't allow that, or
>so I thought.

2.3 certainly does. We have always had 2.9 gig disks with 1 partition
each on our server. It is possible that you need a patch for the
9 gig disks with 2.3, but again definitely not in 2.4 -- we just
a few months ago added a trayfull to our 2.4 server.

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by **David Dani** » Tue, 19 Dec 1995 04:00:00

When newfs is done on the disk and it is mounted it will only see
2Gbytes of data, how are you able to see all 9Gbytes of data Andy?

by **Adrian Boo** » Wed, 20 Dec 1995 04:00:00

> If 2.3 solaris won't I have heard that solaris 2.4 will, does anyone if
> this is true?

We have a 2.4 machine - it seems to allow a 9GB partition - but poeple said
it shouldn't work.. so I copied 5.8GB on an it still worked OK ;-)

Aid

by **Andrew R. Tef** » Wed, 20 Dec 1995 04:00:00

Quote:
>When newfs is done on the disk and it is mounted it will only see
>2Gbytes of data, how are you able to see all 9Gbytes of data Andy?

Like I said, when we had 2.3, we only had 2.9 gig drives.
But they were indeed each a partition larger than 2 gigs.
I don't remember having to do anything special.

Now of course, remember if you nfs mount that onto a sunos
machine, df will only show 2 gigs, but you can still use all
of it.

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by **Syed Zaeem Hosa** » Wed, 20 Dec 1995 04:00:00

>When newfs is done on the disk and it is mounted it will only see
>2Gbytes of data, how are you able to see all 9Gbytes of data Andy?

In Solaris 2.3 and above, disk partitions larger than 2GB are possible
(without running ODS either!).

I do not know about Solaris 2.0, or 2.1 or 2.2 though!

Z

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by **Casper H.S. D** » Wed, 20 Dec 1995 04:00:00

>> If 2.3 solaris won't I have heard that solaris 2.4 will, does anyone if
>> this is true?
>We have a 2.4 machine - it seems to allow a 9GB partition - but poeple said
>it shouldn't work.. so I copied 5.8GB on an it still worked OK ;-)

Fortunately, you didn't listen to the wrong people.

Large filesystems have been supported since Solaris 2.0, but there
have been quirks. Solaris 2.3 supported them well, it's the
earliest OS I remember using them on.
The 2.3 to 2.4 upgrade had some trouble with those large partitions,
but hey, you should upgrade to 2.5 now anyway.

Casper
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by **bi..** » Fri, 22 Dec 1995 04:00:00

Quote:>Have a seagate 9G drive that is partition into 4 2Gigs and 1Gig, I
>really wanted on great big partition, but 2.3 wouldn't allow that, or
>so I thought. Can anyone tell if 2.3 will allow this, and if so how do
>you do it, everytime I tried it would not recognize more than 2Gigs.
>If 2.3 solaris won't I have heard that solaris 2.4 will, does anyone if
>this is true?

>THANKS
>DAVID

Solaris 2.3 or greater will support file systems of up to around a Terabyte, with a
size limit of around 2 GBytes. I have a number of 60 GByte file systems on non-Sun
RAID systems.

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