From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 21 03:13:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E65016A40F for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:13:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [64.129.166.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12D243D5C for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:13:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.21] (andersonbox1.centtech.com [192.168.42.21]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAL3DE5l049348; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:13:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <45626EC9.5000306@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:13:13 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061015) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Reyes References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/2209/Mon Nov 20 16:40:59 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.6 (2006-10-03) on mh1.centtech.com Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: what is the safe <2 TB number, precisely ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:13:20 -0000 On 11/20/06 20:40, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Ivan Voras writes: > > >> As Eric said, the 2 TB issue is not tied to the file system. It's tied >> to the fdisk and disklabel. A perfectly valid workaround is not to use >> fdisk & disklabel to partition your drive, but to partition it in the >> array creation utility (safest) or use gpt (but you can't modify the gpt >> table if there are mounted partitions on it). >> >> Thus, you can do "newfs /dev/da1", "mount /dev/da1 /whatever", etc. > > Where can I find information about the "array creation utility"? > > A couple of searches did not return anything. What he meant (presumably) is the utility that came with the hardware array itself, to create logical drives within the array hardware, so it is presented to FreeBSD as a device all of its own. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------