From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 8 03:13:59 2009 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 2BA191065672 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 03:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben@b1c1l1.com) Received: from lancer.b1c1l1.com (unknown [IPv6:2607:f358:1a:1a:1000::]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105918FC22 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 03:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben@b1c1l1.com) Received: from supra.b1c1l1.com (c-76-102-159-187.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.102.159.187]) by lancer.b1c1l1.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 84E825C29; Thu, 7 May 2009 20:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A03A36A.6000507@b1c1l1.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 20:13:46 -0700 From: Benjamin Lee User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090430) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Stewart References: <00f401c9cf84$b0582850$110878f0$@org> In-Reply-To: <00f401c9cf84$b0582850$110878f0$@org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig003BF6EEDC99A9738E6F6A77" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2 Installation Problem - Large Disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 03:13:59 -0000 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--