Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:44:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Amandeep Pannu" <aman@chamkila.org> To: "Henry Whincup" <henry@jot.to> Cc: "\"Amandeep Pannu\"" <aman@chamkila.org> Subject: Re: Partiotioning 2.2TB Under FreeBSD 5.2.1 Message-ID: <52086.69.36.228.194.1103139845.squirrel@69.36.228.194> In-Reply-To: <003d01c4e293$b38dc8a0$0a64a8c0@techiebod.com> References: <003d01c4e293$b38dc8a0$0a64a8c0@techiebod.com>
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Hi all, Thanks all for your replies. I installed 5.3 which saw the whole 2.2TB in sysinstall then I made two slices and mounted them. Everything worked fine. Thanks again. Kudos to 5.3 Aman >> 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 > -- Amandeep.S aman@chamkila.org http://aman.chamkila.org
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