Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:29:53 +0200 From: "Patrik Jansson" <fbsd@aleborg.se> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Mounting a large virtual disk Message-ID: <000801c6d5ae$bf99a0a0$ed8773d5@patrik>
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Hi list! (my first time here) I have a PowerEdge 2850 with a PERC 5/I card which I connect to a MD1000 storage system which consists of 6 SATA disks each of 500GB. I have created a hardware RAID 5 of all disks and FreeBSD recognize this as /dev/mfid0. So I go into sysinstall to create something to mount and then Fdisk complains about the geometry, it says: "A geometry of 303672/255/63 for mfid0 is incorrect." and that I ought to set this myself but I have no idea which geometry to use. I have tried to just ignore this and use the entire disk and then in the Disklabel editor I have made a label of the entire partition (2326G). When pressing W to write it says "Error mounting /dev/mfid0s1d on /backup : No such file or directory" and that's because it's called /dev/mfid0s1c and not d. I have tried to ignore this aswell and run newfs manually "newfs /dev/mfid0s1c" and it outputs a whole bunch of numbers and returns without errors. But when I mount this partition its size is just 269G of which 248G is available. How do I use the entire disk? Regards, Patrik Jansson
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