Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:16:38 -0500 From: Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@bfoz.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S? Message-ID: <20050815181638.GX82971@therub.org> 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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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:58:36AM -0700, 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. Reviewing my notes (actually, my irc logs), i believe i did just do a "newfs /dev/da0". I found this thread to be useful, and this message in particular: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-April/084557.html Though, I didn't find the dd and disklabel steps necessary. Dan
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