Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:29:05 -0800 From: Darren David <darren@thebomb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel not returning values for large RAID Message-ID: <495DB431.7030802@thebomb.com> In-Reply-To: <495DB123.4020908@thebomb.com> References: <495DB123.4020908@thebomb.com>
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Darren David wrote: > Hi all- > > I recently added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5 > volume, in an attempt to bring my total capacity up to ~2.25TB (4x750GB > RAID5). > > I successfully used the 3ware 'tw-cli' utility to perform "Online > Capacity Expansion." The controller migrated the existing data across > all 4 disks, and it now reports a total volume capacity of 2095.44GB. > Excellent. > > So, the issue I'm having is with getting FreeBSD 7.0-Release to > recognize the additional space. I've seen scant few articles on the > subject, the best of which is here: > > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200111/growfs.html > > My primary issue right now is that when I attempt to run disklabel on > the volume (/dev/da0) in order to get my calculations for fdisk, i get: > > # disklabel /dev/da0 > disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported > > and when I attempt it on the slice, i get: > > # disklabel /dev/da0s1 > disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found > > What's the trick here? > > Thanks in advance, > Darren David Update: OK, I discovered gpt. Here's the output: # gpt show /dev/da0 start size index contents 0 1 MBR 1 62 63 2929629402 1 MBR part 165 2929629465 1464835815 Can anyone please give me some insight as to where to go from here? Cheers, Darren
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