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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:23:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Timothy Toole <ttoole@sandia.gov>
To:        <re@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Disklabel issues with large RAID systems (1.7+TB)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201141502340.3452-100000@terrance.ran.sandia.gov>

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Hello,

I wasn't sure who to ask, so maybe you can point me in the right direction.

I've got a 4.5-PRERELEASE system with an Fibre Channel storage system
(QLogic 2200 via isp, Mylex FF2) that totals roughly 1.7 TB in size. I have been
having a large degree of difficulty initializing the disk system with the
normal tools (disklabel, fdisk and newfs), as *it appears* there may be some
overflowing going on (32/64 bit or signed/unsigned).

Disklabel won't write a good label:

disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: open partition would move or shrink
re-edit the label? [y]: n

Newfs is reading a similar issue:

> newfs -b 1048576 /dev/da1c
preposterous size -794976256

(attempting to change the number of inodes and fragment sizes had a similar
effect).

By creating a custom disk type in the /etc/disktab file, I was successful in
creating a 781284 Mb filesystem, but that was the largest I could create.

Building a NTFS filesystem under Windows2000 and then mounting under FreeBSD,
resulted in:

> df
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on

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