From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 13:11:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF82F16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 13:11:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F127343D7D for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 13:11:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [10.1.1.7]) (authenticated bits=0)j4BDB84J057627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 11 May 2005 15:11:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4BDANhs062574 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 May 2005 15:10:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4BDANRW064724; Wed, 11 May 2005 15:10:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j4BDAMXt064723; Wed, 11 May 2005 15:10:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:10:22 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Steven Jurczyk Message-ID: <20050511131021.GH59593@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20050511035040.28604.qmail@server299.com> <4282000A.2030600@post.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4282000A.2030600@post.pl> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.2-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on cicely12.cicely.de cc: general cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raid array trouble > 2TB - freebsd 5.4 install X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:11:14 -0000 On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:52:26PM +0200, Steven Jurczyk wrote: > general wrote: > > >Hey all, i've had a bit of trouble getting freebsd installed with my 2.5TB > >array. > >I'm using a 3ware 9500s Raid controller with 12 250G drives. I've been > >through this install before a few months ago when the array was only 1.5TB > >installing freebsd 5.3. > > > I have use 3ware 9500s with 12*250 and 12*400G drives. The problem is > that sector count variable in partition table and bsdlabel on i386 are > 32bit - so maximum size of one partition/label are 2 TB. But You can > create (with command line fdisk from FreeBSD 5.x) more partitions on big > disk and this works (I have two 2 TB partitions on 4 TB array): > > # df > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da1s1d 1.9T 1.7T 64G 96% /matrix1 > /dev/da1s2d 1.9T 1.8T -59G 103% /matrix2 > /dev/da0s1d 1.9T 1.7T 57G 97% /matrix3 > /dev/da0s2d 1.9T 1.7T 95G 95% /matrix4 > > The second solution is using WHOLE disk (without partitioning and > disklabeling) for one file system: > > newfs -U /dev/da0 > mount /dev/da0 /mnt Use gpt to partition large disks. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de