From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 11:32:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6C4106567F for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 11:32:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliverj@spider-networks.net) Received: from smtp18.uk1.bibliotech.net (smtp18.uk1.bibliotech.net [212.57.34.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DCB78FC12 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 11:32:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliverj@spider-networks.net) Received: from [212.57.34.212] (helo=hmweb-8.uk1.bibliotech.net) by smtp18.uk1.bibliotech.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JwbON-00050E-A6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 12:12:59 +0100 Received: from hmweb by hmweb-8.uk1.bibliotech.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JwbOM-0000V7-Sr for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 12:12:59 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.420 (Entity 5.420) From: Oliver Howe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:12:58 +0100 X-Homemaster: Sent from Homemaster http://www.homemaster.net/, the world's premier online community service, based in London, England. X-Homemaster-Trace: Account name: oliverj; Domain name: spider-networks.net; Local time: Thu May 15 12:12:58 2008; Local host: hmweb-8.uk1.bibliotech.net; Remote host: 81.141.243.181; Referer site: web.spider-networks.net X-Complaints-To: General account for reporting spam and other abuse of the service , IT coordinator at responsible organisation X-Homeemaster-Team-Photo: http://www.homemaster.net/static/en/nav/credits.html Message-ID: Subject: raid6 on freebsd7 only showing 61GB instead of 4TB X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: oliverj@spider-networks.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:32:39 -0000 I bought a new storage server and installed freebsd7 onto it. it came with two raid partitions, one of 32GB which i used for the o/s and one of 4.7TB which i am planning to use as a nfs partition. everything went fine during the install, fdisk said that there was 4.7TB on the second partition which i labelled "/export". but when the machine booted up and i did df -h it said that that partition only has 61GB and not 4.7TB $ uname -a FreeBSD pmstorage3.uk1.bibliotech.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 496M 128M 328M 28% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/da1s1d 61G 4.0K 56G 0% /export /dev/da0s1e 496M 12K 456M 0% /tmp /dev/da0s1f 22G 515M 20G 2% /usr /dev/da0s1d 4.1G 1.3M 3.8G 0% /var $ server details are CyberServe 38512 3U Chassis 16 x Hot Swap HDD, 5.25 Slim line CD, FDD Redundant 700 Watt PSU X7 DBE Main Board 1 x 5420 2.5GHz Intel Xeon Low power Processor 2 x 6Mb 1333 FSB 16 GB DDR Memory ( Low Powered Ram) 3 Ware 16 Port Hardware RAID Controller, 0,1,0+1,5,50 & 6 16 x WD 500 Gb SATA HDDs Green Drives (Raid 6 System Drives Total Usable Volume size 4.79 TB ) 2xGbE LAN ports, does anyone know why this is? thanks, oliver -- Confidentiality Notice: This email is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender IMMEDIATELY; you should not copy the email or use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any other person. General Statement: Any statements made, or intentions expressed in this communication, may not necessarily reflect the view of Spider Networks, that no content herein may be held binding upon Spider Networks or any associate or any associated company unless confirmed by the issuance of a formal contractual document or purchase order.