From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 14:20:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D97106568B; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:20:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865BB8FC20; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:20:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (pool-98-109-39-197.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net [98.109.39.197]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 34C7A46BA2; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:20:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2PEJNSB073036; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:20:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:19:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <49CA3795.609@bsd.ee> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903251019.03312.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:20:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/9164/Wed Mar 25 00:02:31 2009 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Ivan Voras Subject: Re: 32bit filesystem limitations X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:20:08 -0000 On Wednesday 25 March 2009 10:03:36 am Ivan Voras wrote: > Andrei Kolu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have trouble to create FreeBSD 7.1 i386 partition/slice to 3Ware 8port > > raid kontroller with 8x500GB drives attached to it. Raid 5 massive is > > 3,1TB in size and during sysinstall installation I select whole > > available space but after restart I can access only 1,2TB from it. What > > is the problem? > > MS-DOS fdisk partitions and bsdlabel partitions both have 32-bit > limitations on the file system size. You should use gpart to partition > the large volume. That is, except if you want to boot from it also - > then it's a bit problematic; it's best to create two logical drives in > your RAID controller - one small drive for the OS (something like 8 GB > to keep the ports and all) and the rest for the data. Well, you need to use GPT, either via gpart(8) or gpt(8). You can then use gptboot to boot from that volume if desired. -- John Baldwin