Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:46:33 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: oliverj@spider-networks.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raid6 on freebsd7 only showing 61GB instead of 4TB Message-ID: <482C2299.2050506@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <PM.23495.1210849978@hmweb-8.uk1.bibliotech.net> References: <PM.23495.1210849978@hmweb-8.uk1.bibliotech.net>
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Oliver Howe wrote:
>
> 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
fdisk partitioning only supports up to 2TB I believe. For larger filesystems
you'll need to use gpt(8) instead -- this isn't possible to set up via sysinstall
and it is still very much a work in progress. Your other alternatives are
to divide your 4TB area into sub-2TB partitions, or to use zfs(1M). There are
pros and cons to all of these solutions which have been discussed at length on
various @freebsd.org mailing lists.
Cheers
Matthew
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