From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 15:08:59 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 D187B10656BB for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:08:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C7D8FC14 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:08:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LmUiu-0002Pr-VI for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:08:56 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:08:56 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:08:56 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:08:08 +0100 Lines: 70 Message-ID: References: <49CA3795.609@bsd.ee> <49CA4498.2020007@bsd.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0632D13C442FD2ACA6D5856F" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) In-Reply-To: <49CA4498.2020007@bsd.ee> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news 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 15:09:02 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0632D13C442FD2ACA6D5856F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Andrei Kolu wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Andrei Kolu wrote: >> =20 >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have trouble to create FreeBSD 7.1 i386 partition/slice to 3Ware 8p= ort >>> 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. Wh= at >>> is the problem? >>> =20 >> >> 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. >> >> =20 > I created 20GB slice for system and selected everything else for /data > but after restart I see again 1,2TB /data. After second sysinstall > attempt I created another 2TB slice and now at least I can use whole > space. Not so good but it works. >=20 > Second attempt: > Now I reserved 20GB for "boot volume" from 3Ware 9650SE controller and > looks like it ...oops...did it again....deem. >=20 > # df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 2.1G 146M 1.8G 8% / > devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev > /dev/da1s1d 1.2T 4.1k 1.1T 0% /data > /dev/da0s1d 3.1G 12k 2.9G 0% /tmp > /dev/da0s1f 8.3G 450M 7.2G 6% /usr > /dev/da0s1e 4.2G 281k 3.8G 0% /var Ok, you're on the right track. Just don't use bsdlabel or fdisk partitions for da1 - clear the partition tables and use gpart to create a GPT partition tables which has no 32-bit problems. --------------enig0632D13C442FD2ACA6D5856F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJykjYldnAQVacBcgRAt3EAJ9ykduKEkHD/8ED1VKld/KsOLJWEACdG4dV H++fuYLFBeD3Kq0DGxpXZEQ= =AgzX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0632D13C442FD2ACA6D5856F--