Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:17:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Amandeep Pannu <aman@chamkila.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partiotioning 2.2TB Under FreeBSD 5.2.1 Message-ID: <20041214231742.GA71191@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <49246.69.36.228.194.1103056170.squirrel@69.36.228.194> References: <41BE41D6.5030202@comcast.net> <49246.69.36.228.194.1103056170.squirrel@69.36.228.194>
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On 2004-12-14 12:29, Amandeep Pannu <aman@chamkila.org> wrote: > I have 12WD 200GB SATA drives with RAID5 and glabal spare on 3ware 9000 > series controller. Also one 80GB SATA drive for OS. > I had to manually compile the twa driver. kldload twa. The system started > recognizing the controller and the total capacity. > Although the dao show 2.2TB but when I try to partition the RAID5 the > sysinstall only shows me 271GB. This may be a bug in the way sysinstall handles huge numbers. > Any ideas how to partition or see the whole 2TB. Try using fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs without relying on the sysinstall interface, i.e.: 1. Install a single slice covering the entire disk: # fdisk -I /dev/da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found # fdisk -I /dev/da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* # 2. Install a new label on da0s1: # bsdlabel -w /dev/da0s1 3. Edit the label. Keep in mind that in 5.X the 'c' partition covers only the `useful' area of the disk, so you don't have to leave some unused space at the beginning of da0s1c when you set the size of the da0s1a partition: # bsdlabel -e /dev/da0s1 4. Create a new filesystem on da0s1a: # newfs /dev/da0s1a
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