Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:58:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@bfoz.net> To: "Dan Rue" <drue@therub.org> Cc: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@bfoz.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S? Message-ID: <29113.192.35.35.34.1124128716.squirrel@bfoz.net> In-Reply-To: <20050815154625.GW82971@therub.org> References: <42FFB1EB.5040802@bfoz.net> <20050815154625.GW82971@therub.org>
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> I recently dealt with the same controller, with a 3TB array. My > solution is tons easier than dealing with gpt or breaking it up. So > long as you don't need to boot from the raid, and you just want it as > one big disk, forget partitioning it. newfs the device directly, and > mount it directly. > > drue@leopard:~$ df -h > ... > /dev/da0 2.6T 182G 2.3T 7% /d > > I just did a newfs on /dev/da0 and mounted it. Works /great/. No fuss. Did you just "newfs /dev/da0"? I think I tried that already without success, something about a bad superblock. I'll try it again tonight just to make sure.
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