From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 06:29:12 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 A5BFE1065672 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:29:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darren@thebomb.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827C58FC14 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:29:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darren@thebomb.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so7490662rvf.43 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:29:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.37.8 with SMTP id p8mr8686732rvj.227.1230877751534; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:29:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.1.210? (208-106-20-128.dsl.static.sonic.net [208.106.20.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g31sm44826510rvb.4.2009.01.01.22.29.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:29:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <495DB431.7030802@thebomb.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:29:05 -0800 From: Darren David Organization: Stimulant User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <495DB123.4020908@thebomb.com> In-Reply-To: <495DB123.4020908@thebomb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: disklabel not returning values for large RAID 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, 02 Jan 2009 06:29:12 -0000 Darren David wrote: > Hi all- > > I recently added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5 > volume, in an attempt to bring my total capacity up to ~2.25TB (4x750GB > RAID5). > > I successfully used the 3ware 'tw-cli' utility to perform "Online > Capacity Expansion." The controller migrated the existing data across > all 4 disks, and it now reports a total volume capacity of 2095.44GB. > Excellent. > > So, the issue I'm having is with getting FreeBSD 7.0-Release to > recognize the additional space. I've seen scant few articles on the > subject, the best of which is here: > > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200111/growfs.html > > My primary issue right now is that when I attempt to run disklabel on > the volume (/dev/da0) in order to get my calculations for fdisk, i get: > > # disklabel /dev/da0 > disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported > > and when I attempt it on the slice, i get: > > # disklabel /dev/da0s1 > disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found > > What's the trick here? > > Thanks in advance, > Darren David Update: OK, I discovered gpt. Here's the output: # gpt show /dev/da0 start size index contents 0 1 MBR 1 62 63 2929629402 1 MBR part 165 2929629465 1464835815 Can anyone please give me some insight as to where to go from here? Cheers, Darren