From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 08:04:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BDA16A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:04:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C8743D1F for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:04:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43) id 1DMLor-000FVG-D8 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:04:53 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: <860807bf05041416283f279125@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050414221345.DA71F37AB8@mxc1.crockettint.com> <860807bf05041416283f279125@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <378e8c4e199200000f4f9988b7c933fe@shire.net> From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:04:52 -0600 To: List Free Bsd X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:04:54 -0000 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