Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:49:05 -0000 From: "Henry Whincup" <henry@jot.to> To: "\"Amandeep Pannu\"" <aman@chamkila.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partiotioning 2.2TB Under FreeBSD 5.2.1 Message-ID: <003d01c4e293$b38dc8a0$0a64a8c0@techiebod.com>
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> I am new to this big arrays. FreeBSD 5.2.1 doesnt see all the 2.2TB. So am I, and I had the same problem recently. I used 5.3-Stable as of a couple of weeks ago so YMMV, but... > GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc832fc50 > da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <3ware Logical Disk 00 1.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 100.000MB/s transfers > da0: 2384080MB (4882595840 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 303927C) Looks good to me. You may want to have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ Note that fdisk will only support upto 2TB partitions (aka slices in BSD), and only allow you access to under 2TB of a disk, you seem to be just over this limit. Therefore you may have to use gpt(8). Thus for you: # gpt create da0 # gpt add da0 Will create /dev/da0p1 and it will use the entire disk (use gpt show da0 to check), however it will probably not be bootable. Also note that disklabel/bsdlabel dosen't like values over 2TB, so you have to use gpt to partition the disk as you want. Henry
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