Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:06:00 +0200 From: Mikael Krantz <mikael.krantz@qbrick.com> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@bfoz.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> Subject: Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S? Message-ID: <4300D988.5050605@qbrick.com> In-Reply-To: <29113.192.35.35.34.1124128716.squirrel@bfoz.net> References: <42FFB1EB.5040802@bfoz.net> <20050815154625.GW82971@therub.org> <29113.192.35.35.34.1124128716.squirrel@bfoz.net>
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Brandon Fosdick wrote: >>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. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I had the same problem with 8x400 disk on a areca hardware sata card in fbsd 5.4-stable. Soo I just did newfs -m 2 -U -O 2 -i 262144 /dev/da0 with those options as I needed as much space as possible. I had the issue that label didnt wanna let me do partitions. // Mikael Krantz www.qbrick.com
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