From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 15 18:16:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DAC16A41F for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:16:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drue@therub.org) Received: from conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (conn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46FB43D46 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:16:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drue@therub.org) Received: from egypt.therub.org (therub.org [209.98.146.43]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D64C8435; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:16:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: by egypt.therub.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2D94945674C; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:16:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:16:38 -0500 From: Dan Rue To: Brandon Fosdick Message-ID: <20050815181638.GX82971@therub.org> References: <42FFB1EB.5040802@bfoz.net> <20050815154625.GW82971@therub.org> <29113.192.35.35.34.1124128716.squirrel@bfoz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29113.192.35.35.34.1124128716.squirrel@bfoz.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:16:39 -0000 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