From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 11 14:29:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B465316A47C for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:29:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@aleborg.se) Received: from smtp1.webbpost.se (admin.webbpost.se [193.17.218.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC8043D62 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:29:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd@aleborg.se) Received: from patrik ([213.115.135.237]) by smtp1.webbpost.se (smtp1.webbpost.se) with ASMTP id PXO62945 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:29:45 +0200 From: "Patrik Jansson" To: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:29:53 +0200 Message-ID: <000801c6d5ae$bf99a0a0$ed8773d5@patrik> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Thread-Index: AcbVrr7d7XSAQvP8TZ+BxQtOeKj2pg== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Mounting a large virtual disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:29:55 -0000 Hi list! (my first time here) I have a PowerEdge 2850 with a PERC 5/I card which I connect to a MD1000 storage system which consists of 6 SATA disks each of 500GB. I have created a hardware RAID 5 of all disks and FreeBSD recognize this as /dev/mfid0. So I go into sysinstall to create something to mount and then Fdisk complains about the geometry, it says: "A geometry of 303672/255/63 for mfid0 is incorrect." and that I ought to set this myself but I have no idea which geometry to use. I have tried to just ignore this and use the entire disk and then in the Disklabel editor I have made a label of the entire partition (2326G). When pressing W to write it says "Error mounting /dev/mfid0s1d on /backup : No such file or directory" and that's because it's called /dev/mfid0s1c and not d. I have tried to ignore this aswell and run newfs manually "newfs /dev/mfid0s1c" and it outputs a whole bunch of numbers and returns without errors. But when I mount this partition its size is just 269G of which 248G is available. How do I use the entire disk? Regards, Patrik Jansson