Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:30:01 -0600 From: JD <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help creating new gmirror > 2TB Message-ID: <59A5CEC9.1080409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFsnNZLeuLYEJVozsoSvDtvgfMf4UueJhm37waOQ5_kyxs-rhg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFsnNZLeuLYEJVozsoSvDtvgfMf4UueJhm37waOQ5_kyxs-rhg@mail.gmail.com>
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Sorry to digress a little, but I have a 6TB drive, single MBR partition on a linux machine. I would be surprised if FreeBSD could not support my drive: fdisk -l /dev/sde Disk /dev/sde: 5.5 TiB, 6001140957184 bytes, 1465122304 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x3d0278e3 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 256 1465122303 1565520896 83 Linux On 08/29/2017 02:12 PM, William Dudley wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a simple mirror > 2TB on a FreeBSD 10.3 system. > > I have 2 identical 4TB disks. > > The examples in freebsd handbook "geom-mirror" pages show creation of a 2TB > mirror using > MBR partitioning, and that has an upper limit of 2TB. > > Some documentation says not to use GPT partitioning with gmirror because > both store their information in the last sector on the disk. > > I'm not expert enough to be able to solve this myself. > > How do I create a gmirror of 4TB size? > > I want to partition it into 4 slices after I create it, but think I can use > gpart to do that. > > Note: I'm not interested in using zfs unless there's no way to do this with > gmirror. > I read too many zfs failure stories on this mailing list to be comfortable > with zfs. > > Thanks in advance, > Bill Dudley > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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