Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:04:52 -0600 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: List Free Bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions Message-ID: <378e8c4e199200000f4f9988b7c933fe@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <860807bf05041416283f279125@mail.gmail.com> References: <dc9ba04405041412497adcfd59@mail.gmail.com> <20050414221345.DA71F37AB8@mxc1.crockettint.com> <860807bf05041416283f279125@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Benson Wong wrote: >> >> So theoretically it should go over 1000TB=85I've conducted several=20 >> bastardized >> installations due to sysinstall not being able to do anything over=20 >> the 2TB >> limit by creating the partition ahead of time=85I am going to be=20 >> attacking >> this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one=20= >> large >> 5.8TB slice=85.wish me luck!! >> >> >> >> PS: Muhaa haa haa! > You're probably going to run into "boo hoo hoo hoo". Most likely you > won't be able to get over the 2TB limit. Also don't use sysinstall, I > was never able to get it to work well. Probably because my arrays were > mounted over fiber channel and fdisk craps out. > > This is what I did: > > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/da0 bs=3D1k count=3D1 > disklabel -rw da0 audo > newfs /dev/da0 I have no experience doing any of this. But this has come up before in=20= the lists and someone posted on the magic incantations to use to create=20= these things by hand. So use google or other search engine to search=20 the list archives on tb sized file systems. There is good info there Chad
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