Hi, I have trouble to create FreeBSD 7.1 i386 partition/slice to 3Ware 8port raid kontroller with 8x500GB drives attached to it. Raid 5 massive is 3,1TB in size and during sysinstall installation I select whole available space but after restart I can access only 1,2TB from it. What is the problem?
At 09:54 AM 3/25/2009, Andrei Kolu wrote:>Hi, > >I have trouble to create FreeBSD 7.1 i386 partition/slice to 3Ware >8port raid kontroller with 8x500GB drives attached to it. Raid 5 >massive is 3,1TB in size and during sysinstall installation I select >whole available space but after restart I can access only 1,2TB from >it. What is the problem?Hi, You need to use gpart for larger partitions than 1.2TB. eg. on my backup server, I have % df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 1982798 483298 1340878 26% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/da1s1d 30462636 10321258 17704368 37% /usr /dev/da1s1e 35038378 3770818 28464490 12% /var /dev/da0s1d 64210664 44212108 14861704 75% /var/db /dev/da2p1 2761826016 716207954 1824671982 28% /backup ---Mike>_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Andrei Kolu wrote:> Hi, > > I have trouble to create FreeBSD 7.1 i386 partition/slice to 3Ware 8port > raid kontroller with 8x500GB drives attached to it. Raid 5 massive is > 3,1TB in size and during sysinstall installation I select whole > available space but after restart I can access only 1,2TB from it. What > is the problem?MS-DOS fdisk partitions and bsdlabel partitions both have 32-bit limitations on the file system size. You should use gpart to partition the large volume. That is, except if you want to boot from it also - then it's a bit problematic; it's best to create two logical drives in your RAID controller - one small drive for the OS (something like 8 GB to keep the ports and all) and the rest for the data. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20090325/f637b7f2/signature.pgp