From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 29 20:30:04 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43483DE4F24 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x230.google.com (mail-io0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0926A6FFED for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x230.google.com with SMTP id s101so25414194ioe.0 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:30:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Uzy6vVqN1xtuFKR3uhpclOoPtmIye1mNLJkR7xv02Y8=; b=dmLz70D+nTAocP64wgRfbw+yoHsIQtec4peHiTmVzDO6UycjMWDHScXvreGs/N3SQw JFefSEAmdWCpjFC/6SxbdPK0s1YosPEq8M4qzUNq3n1sKAOJhE4cYEj+oiZw+E0hfCxq Is6dlAUZog25jAjkG2pBFo9+TAQSvlWapAS7zgutt+5vYydc+un43Aol75w1BD6SV5oD udpx8XCqw947ycEQPaWfcghHpDpr/MhuBE7iJpCxiSOe+EivESrGqyLqLj+Y9nctY3Gh llF1J+l6IDzxR1RowwuRLtjM5OTdYfx3gbItTxYQ3rfH+py8tLpg9+hHHEaB8v/4l74v lcbQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Uzy6vVqN1xtuFKR3uhpclOoPtmIye1mNLJkR7xv02Y8=; b=qcQjFg9HDx1DXKbfnJj9jlK+H2efmnoheRZ9EZ8Rgz+OFjmCgUuCoyS8bhgzT7GZjc t4SEKFKedbaKrSveL56mP0s23NewJn26vBvzhVhvCGYSu2+JNj7N+W6JhJlEwiRjxIoh /zjlC6BQ9/VqancnlSDkCFrr8YZjz8Ws5oJAk2mAxx8H4wadcWdaIEvKBH6BJ5k1cJLT RiyTNJ8Rifgh6F2HowoVMTkKDfEExvcuWzw0IUJF7HM0x8BUUT/WmB3cptCmIHMTy6rz vcjPzvLl3DKSWcfCs6LGqcewuV2iroFqCe3PyY31wlD9o38BIvBe1EjFyi1xUQI/vEH3 6MJQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AHYfb5jMZ2H0CK1dJ+q7w5UnPhDBmTD9Rl2ZZVRBttxox7QfpHliltI9 m0jZujSSezaFIeQk X-Received: by 10.107.8.66 with SMTP id 63mr5637081ioi.111.1504038603245; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (50-243-4-3-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [50.243.4.3]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id y202sm1417094itc.2.2017.08.29.13.30.02 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: help creating new gmirror > 2TB To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: JD Message-ID: <59A5CEC9.1080409@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:30:01 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:30:04 -0000 Sorry to digress a little, but I have a 6TB drive, single MBR partition on a linux machine. I would be surprised if FreeBSD could not support my drive: fdisk -l /dev/sde Disk /dev/sde: 5.5 TiB, 6001140957184 bytes, 1465122304 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x3d0278e3 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 256 1465122303 1565520896 83 Linux On 08/29/2017 02:12 PM, William Dudley wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a simple mirror > 2TB on a FreeBSD 10.3 system. > > I have 2 identical 4TB disks. > > The examples in freebsd handbook "geom-mirror" pages show creation of a 2TB > mirror using > MBR partitioning, and that has an upper limit of 2TB. > > Some documentation says not to use GPT partitioning with gmirror because > both store their information in the last sector on the disk. > > I'm not expert enough to be able to solve this myself. > > How do I create a gmirror of 4TB size? > > I want to partition it into 4 slices after I create it, but think I can use > gpart to do that. > > Note: I'm not interested in using zfs unless there's no way to do this with > gmirror. > I read too many zfs failure stories on this mailing list to be comfortable > with zfs. > > Thanks in advance, > Bill Dudley > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >