From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 6 06:56:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB3016A469 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 06:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3578213C4D5 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 06:56:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so1584241fka for ; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:56:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rfwbTdDWOjWQSGaNHuiwNS7GmQNNaDePu0UC56LSHcUytVNgwj2HT3F/bon8LNtKtliikzIoRQxFBqFQ8AabC4KLRP0BHh6zR7V5VnTYeAiOJo6pa8SvZ9eokDo2rjHCQbPmo0W2I+IGAeqTWSYh5Y7p3gM+xhtFjjdlzp0nQWY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=A/tyjG8MMwRJ7ndPM9HsLdYnYNhFhqM9wRhEhx5u8FaXkGTRYgoZd9We97dZaod5n+h48fwLrHDSPYg/gFW1trKzAf1znJ2ubSJ6PWuqJuTWJvPQ/lcIvEciyipAy4/mHaUMVDb77YkqlScPu8kcXTu5SYQSgMrxtWp8eHuD/9I= Received: by 10.82.178.11 with SMTP id a11mr5140842buf.1186383362827; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 23:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:56:02 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Hartleigh Burton" In-Reply-To: <98148EE5-2AE8-4EF3-8CF3-225CAF8C07C9@mraentertainment.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46B6B171.5000708@riderway.com> <1918FC18-18E2-4163-A78A-6EA4A807BCE5@mraentertainment.com> <98148EE5-2AE8-4EF3-8CF3-225CAF8C07C9@mraentertainment.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:56:07 -0000 On 06/08/07, Hartleigh Burton wrote: > > Thanks for the tip. > > # /dev/da1s1: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 3029130401 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, > don't edit > d: 3029130401 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 > > Unfortunately for me, I do not really know what I am looking at here. > I just noticed from man 8 bsdlabel: COMPATIBILITY Due to the use of an u_int32_t to store the number of sectors, BSD labels are restricted to a maximum of 2^32-1 sectors. This usually means 2TB of disk space. Larger disks should be partitioned using another method such as gpt(8). I suspect this applies to amd64. man 8 fdisk makes no mention of data size problems, but I would suspect it as well. -- --