From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 12:09:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5EB41065675 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 12:09:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from smtp.vub.ac.be (mxout.vub.ac.be [134.184.129.111]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1D48FC17 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 12:09:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhIBAPetM0ikD30E/2dsb2JhbAAIsBA Received: from bebif01.ulb.ac.be (HELO [10.0.0.194]) ([164.15.125.4]) by smtp.vub.ac.be with ESMTP; 21 May 2008 14:09:20 +0200 From: Julien Cigar To: Matias Surdi In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:16:59 +0200 Message-Id: <1211379419.2665.2.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystems help/ideas X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:09:23 -0000 You cannot use fdisk slices/partitions with disks over 2TB. For those GPT should be used. More info is available from here : http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:57 +0200, Matias Surdi wrote: > Hi, > I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server > with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. > > For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be > to have just one "big disk" so that no space problems would appear. > > I've tried to install FreeBSD 7 with no success, as it seems... the > sysinstall tool doesn't support such big slices. > > I've read about the "Large Data Storage on FreeBSD" but I'm still confused. > > I've also thought on using slices of 1Tb, and join all them using vinum. > What do you think about this last option? > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52