From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 15 15:46:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F62F16A41F for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:46:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drue@therub.org) Received: from cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F380B43D55 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:46:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drue@therub.org) Received: from egypt.therub.org (therub.org [209.98.146.43]) by cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62442819C; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:46:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: by egypt.therub.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 275E945674C; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:46:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:46:25 -0500 From: Dan Rue To: Brandon Fosdick Message-ID: <20050815154625.GW82971@therub.org> References: <42FFB1EB.5040802@bfoz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42FFB1EB.5040802@bfoz.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:46:26 -0000 On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:04:43PM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Now that my shiny new 9500S is installed and not fighting for IRQs, I've > created and initialized a ~2.5TB array using the bios utility. So the next > step is mounting the new array. > I naively tried following the regular handbook instructions for adding a > new drive and failed miserably. And after googling a bit I now know why, > and realized that I knew why before, but I was being stupid. > I've seen a few mentions of using gpt(8) and some vague references to using > dedicated mode. But I haven't seen anything that says "this is the Right > Way to do it". So...what's the proper way to make a large file system? Hi Brandon, I recently dealt with the same controller, with a 3TB array. My solution is tons easier than dealing with gpt or breaking it up. So long as you don't need to boot from the raid, and you just want it as one big disk, forget partitioning it. newfs the device directly, and mount it directly. drue@leopard:~$ df -h ... /dev/da0 2.6T 182G 2.3T 7% /d I just did a newfs on /dev/da0 and mounted it. Works /great/. No fuss. Dan