Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 20:13:46 -0700 From: Benjamin Lee <ben@b1c1l1.com> To: Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2 Installation Problem - Large Disk Message-ID: <4A03A36A.6000507@b1c1l1.com> In-Reply-To: <00f401c9cf84$b0582850$110878f0$@org> References: <00f401c9cf84$b0582850$110878f0$@org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig003BF6EEDC99A9738E6F6A77 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/07/2009 07:28 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hi there.. >=20 > =20 >=20 > I hope this is the correct mailing list to ask this question. >=20 > =20 >=20 > I have a Dell Poweredge R710 server (brand new)... 7.2-RELEASE installs= fine > but I'm having a problem getting any large partitions over approximatel= y > 500GB. During the installation it allows me to create 4.5TB partition = but > after rebooting it's only really 500GB +/- >=20 > =20 >=20 > Has anyone successfully installed into a disk this large? This is a RA= ID5 > array using the Dell Perc 6/I controller >=20 > =20 >=20 > I have installed now 6+ times with smaller partitions (100GB even) and = run > into problems . hoping someone could share how they got large disk supp= ort > working.. I'd be happy with several 1TB partitions but when I configur= e it > this way and exceed 4 partitions it tells me disk error creating > partitions.. Unfortunately, MBR and BSD disklabel use 32 bit values, so they are limited to 2TB. GPT uses 64 bit values, but I don't believe that FreeBSD fully supports it. You can see the Big Disk project page [1] for more information. As a workaround, you may wish redo your RAID configuration so that you have multiple logical volumes (e.g. 2T, 2T, 0.5T). [1] http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html --=20 Benjamin Lee http://www.b1c1l1.com/ --------------enig003BF6EEDC99A9738E6F6A77 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKA6NyAAoJEN/n9makEYThJc8P/R56wjuobFSQra4G0bKaf19w gtRZdqlJUnteJ82A9XwQH1NxOdDH4OfWDSRNnkGqLZ2ArIuzUfUyGGaQ6xjvWajT qvaHRAWIpwMBq3My63OsMaETf+4udxWftfDiVlhB4Z8FCmK8hgLhZfLkymPgLT7V GCGgOLzXPhFEphOu8mH6aPyeEOb3xyct9YCGZzCr9RsmKMcdn0tltPV0eNsgDpO/ a0dA9lDkujzVE9QGEQZPoKjENdAlYKvXMJxpHu7qWkbGBOlxk9c6hWozUISGCD/t xUlRN5Ws1rH7jkEuSlREE8SzJaTAflBlFnjlzHkWWmr0FuP6A6DgCQag6UKzj/sy fs20z/x+EsJAwrGrSyM0mnQDMrgwqHq7Jcyc1hetACljpUlduzxuHG8EZB8l1/BF 9VK2kSH4Ymwucf4dsl1LmisbLqSuUvYJswhpz8Op7o78zOJFvYVX11NoVoiMjjod OliJCsmaqkpJikkvBol0+Nw+u8DgFU18lmDadEjr0v0bMbdyovBnbCQk3NtIfwlu VshEYf28qmfzbSBxWWupNqoUKtTcPaVtn8etqAByQVdz/+RfpSLXfsfdJnjpXKwQ ZODagL/MPtdNd+TsqlAV+JIcV/QvUdT5e4KCi6yB2GQJssmwv4W2Q6fTpVvilb3G XhRBHGeld4cRnwEz69fm =Y3iB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig003BF6EEDC99A9738E6F6A77--
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