From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 11:56:41 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 E55F7106564A for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 11:56:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from mx.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb7:b8fe]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622E08FC17 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 11:56:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by mx.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m4FBuHbk029087; Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:18 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, oliverj@spider-networks.net Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805151356.17490.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: raid6 on freebsd7 only showing 61GB instead of 4TB 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: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:56:42 -0000 On Thursday 15 May 2008, Oliver Howe wrote: > I bought a new storage server and installed freebsd7 onto it. it came with > two raid partitions, one of 32GB which i used for the o/s and one of 4.7TB > which i am planning to use as a nfs partition. everything went fine during > the install, fdisk said that there was 4.7TB on the second partition which > i labelled "/export". but when the machine booted up and i did df -h it > said that that partition only has 61GB and not 4.7TB > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD pmstorage3.uk1.bibliotech.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: > Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 > root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 496M 128M 328M 28% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/da1s1d 61G 4.0K 56G 0% /export > /dev/da0s1e 496M 12K 456M 0% /tmp > /dev/da0s1f 22G 515M 20G 2% /usr > /dev/da0s1d 4.1G 1.3M 3.8G 0% /var > $ > > > server details are > > CyberServe 38512 > 3U Chassis 16 x Hot Swap HDD, 5.25 Slim line CD, FDD Redundant 700 Watt > PSU X7 DBE Main Board > 1 x 5420 2.5GHz Intel Xeon Low power Processor 2 x 6Mb 1333 FSB > 16 GB DDR Memory ( Low Powered Ram) > 3 Ware 16 Port Hardware RAID Controller, 0,1,0+1,5,50 & 6 > 16 x WD 500 Gb SATA HDDs Green Drives (Raid 6 System Drives Total Usable > Volume size 4.79 TB ) 2xGbE LAN ports, > > > > does anyone know why this is? > > > thanks, > > oliver You cannot use fdisk slices ("partitions") with disks over 2TB. Use of GPT is recommended. See gpt(8) and: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html Another way would be to simply newfs/mount /dev/ad1 instead (without partitioning). -- Pieter de Goeje