From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 10:49:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A69E16A4DC for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:49:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.squidge.com (mail0.squidge.com [195.10.252.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F84C43D39 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:49:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henry@jot.to) Received: from lightbox (82-70-14-145.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.70.14.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.squidge.com (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBFAn7GI010194; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:49:07 GMT Message-ID: <003d01c4e293$b38dc8a0$0a64a8c0@techiebod.com> From: "Henry Whincup" To: "\"Amandeep Pannu\"" Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:49:05 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS at mail.squidge.com X-Spam-Level: -0.5 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:11:50 +0000 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partiotioning 2.2TB Under FreeBSD 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:49:26 -0000 > 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