From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 14 21:04:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F166B16A41F for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:04:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bfoz@bfoz.net) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [63.240.76.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEE343D46 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:04:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bfoz@bfoz.net) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (c-24-6-134-233.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[24.6.134.233]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005081421044401300l6rdse>; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:04:44 +0000 Message-ID: <42FFB1EB.5040802@bfoz.net> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:04:43 -0700 From: Brandon Fosdick User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050721) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S? 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: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:04:46 -0000 Now that my shiny new 9500S is installed and not fighting for IRQs, I've created and initialized a ~2.5TB array using the bios utility. So the next step is mounting the new array. I naively tried following the regular handbook instructions for adding a new drive and failed miserably. And after googling a bit I now know why, and realized that I knew why before, but I was being stupid. I've seen a few mentions of using gpt(8) and some vague references to using dedicated mode. But I haven't seen anything that says "this is the Right Way to do it". So...what's the proper way to make a large file system?