Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 19:54:24 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20091208195424.850e8363.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D44A@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33D0D44A@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:36:54 -0600, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote: > We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give > us large 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this: > [...] > We want to create a BSD slice to cover the entire drive. My plan > was to use the fdisk -I option: > [...] > How do we resolve this? We want a full size partition spanning > the entire disk, and we need a scriptable solution since the > configuration of these servers is handled through an automated > process. Why not directly formatting the whole device? In the subject line, you wrote "large partition", so I assume you won't want to boot from from the device, but use it as a big storage area instead. Correct me if I'm wrong. I am often using disks without slice if I don't boot from them, but use them for storage. # newfs /dev/da1 would be the command to create a partition with file system that covers the whole disk. It will be /dev/da1c (which is /dev/da1), and you can easily mount it: # mount /dev/da1 /bigstorage Of course, this solution is completely scriptable, given the fact that you know which device to newfs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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