From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 15 18:06:11 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 321F416A41F for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:06:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikael.krantz@qbrick.com) Received: from mail.nordnic.se (mail.nordnic.se [193.16.97.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B248943D45 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:06:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikael.krantz@qbrick.com) Received: from localhost (mail.nordnic.se [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.nordnic.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501AD53881; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:46:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vscan.nordnic.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan.nordnic.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32184-03; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:46:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.1.1.20] (host-002.mikr.bahnhof.net [213.136.61.242]) by mail.nordnic.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365235387F; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:46:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4300D988.5050605@qbrick.com> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:06:00 +0200 From: Mikael Krantz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Fosdick References: <42FFB1EB.5040802@bfoz.net> <20050815154625.GW82971@therub.org> <29113.192.35.35.34.1124128716.squirrel@bfoz.net> In-Reply-To: <29113.192.35.35.34.1124128716.squirrel@bfoz.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (NordNIC) at mail.nordnic.se Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Dan Rue 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 18:06:11 -0000 Brandon Fosdick wrote: >>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. >> >> > >Did you just "newfs /dev/da0"? I think I tried that already without >success, something about a bad superblock. I'll try it again tonight just >to make sure. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I had the same problem with 8x400 disk on a areca hardware sata card in fbsd 5.4-stable. Soo I just did newfs -m 2 -U -O 2 -i 262144 /dev/da0 with those options as I needed as much space as possible. I had the issue that label didnt wanna let me do partitions. // Mikael Krantz www.qbrick.com