Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:57:34 -0700 (PDT) From: NostalgiaForInfinity <astuy@bio.fsu.edu> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystems larger than 2TB? Message-ID: <11714958.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <f4gttm$t35$2@sea.gmane.org> References: <cone.1181435058.668170.9868.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <f4gttm$t35$2@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras-2 wrote: > > Francisco Reyes wrote: >> I many postings I have seen references of filesystems greater than 2TB, >> yet I have tried several times to create them and have had problems. >> >> Is there a way to create slices and filesystems greater than 2TB in 6.2? >> Perhaps one needs to do it outside sysinstall? > > Yes, you need to do it outside of sysinstall. There are two ways: > > 1. don't use partitions/slices at all and create the file system on the > raw device (i.e. newfs /dev/da0) > 2. use GPT partitions. > > The first one is recommended in 6.x. > Thanks, #1 worked for me. I had two 3ware raid 5 arrays way over 2tb. I did "newfs <devicename>" on each (ie newfs /dev/da0) and result is: sigma# uname -a FreeBSD sigma.bio.fsu.edu 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 08:43:30 UTC 2007 root@portnoy.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64 sigma# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da1s1a 989M 40M 870M 4% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/da1s1f 4.8G 12K 4.5G 0% /tmp /dev/da1s1h 11G 37M 10G 0% /users /dev/da1s1d 24G 753M 22G 3% /usr /dev/da1s1e 19G 4.0K 18G 0% /usr/local/www /dev/da1s1g 7.7G 280K 7.1G 0% /var /dev/da0 6.6T 2.5G 6.1T 0% /data0 /dev/da2 4.6T 1.6G 4.3T 0% /data2 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Filesystems-larger-than-2TB--tf3895966.html#a11714958 Sent from the freebsd-fs mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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