From owner-freebsd-qa Fri Jan 18 6:22:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF79137B9D0 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 06:20:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 48B6C4B661; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 06:19:59 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: murray@stokely.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.119]) by mao.stokely.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBD24B65D for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAC25577E for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ttoole@sandia.gov) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 0247137B416; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:23:19 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: murray@freebsd.org Received: from california.sandia.gov (california.sandia.gov [146.246.250.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A24A37B400; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by california.sandia.gov (8.8.8/1.15) id PAA13797; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:23:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from terrance.ran.sandia.gov(134.252.33.174) by ca.sandia.gov via smap (V1.3) id sma020012; Mon Jan 14 15:23:02 2002 Received: from localhost (ttoole@localhost) by terrance.ran.sandia.gov (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0ENN1603505; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:23:01 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: terrance.ran.sandia.gov: ttoole owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:23:01 -0800 (PST) From: Timothy Toole X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Subject: Disklabel issues with large RAID systems (1.7+TB) Message-ID: User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I wasn't sure who to ask, so maybe you can point me in the right direction. I've got a 4.5-PRERELEASE system with an Fibre Channel storage system (QLogic 2200 via isp, Mylex FF2) that totals roughly 1.7 TB in size. I have been having a large degree of difficulty initializing the disk system with the normal tools (disklabel, fdisk and newfs), as *it appears* there may be some overflowing going on (32/64 bit or signed/unsigned). Disklabel won't write a good label: disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: open partition would move or shrink re-edit the label? [y]: n Newfs is reading a similar issue: > newfs -b 1048576 /dev/da1c preposterous size -794976256 (attempting to change the number of inodes and fragment sizes had a similar effect). By creating a custom disk type in the /etc/disktab file, I was successful in creating a 781284 Mb filesystem, but that was the largest I could create. Building a NTFS filesystem under Windows2000 and then mounting under FreeBSD, resulted in: > df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message