Oliver Howe wrote: > I bought a new storage server and installed freebsd7 onto it. > it came with two raid partitions, one of 32GB which i used > for the o/s and one of 4.7TB which i am planning to use as a > nfs partition. everything went fine during the install, fdisk > said that there was 4.7TB on the second partition which i > labelled "/export". but when the machine booted up and i did > df -h it said that that partition only has 61GB and not 4.7TB
As others have pointed out, fdisk is not able to handle partitions this big. You need to: 1. umount /export 2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=64k count=1 3. gpt create /dev/da1 4. gpt add /dev/da1 5. newfs -O2 -U /dev/da1p1 6. edit your /etc/fstab and change /dev/da1s1d to /dev/da1p1 7. mount /export 8. be happy! The GENERIC kernel comes with GEOM_PART_GPT support so there is no need to load any kernel modules or recompile your kernel to get this to work. (Step #2 above is probably overkill. It erases the old disklabel so that your /dev/da1?? devices disappear.) Beware that running fsck on a 4.7TB partition will take a REALLY long time. If you run FreeBSD 7 in 64 bit mode (amd64), and you really should with 16 GB of memory, then I would recommend using ZFS instead of UFS. For ZFS you would do something like this: 1. umount /export 2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=64k count=1 3. zpool create tank /dev/da1 4. edit /boot/loader.conf and add something like this: vm.kmem_size="1024M" vm.kmem_size_max="1024M" vfs.zfs.arc_max="512M" vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 5. edit /etc/rc.conf and add zfs_enable="YES" 6. reboot 7. be happy! (With 16 GB memory you can probably use larger values for slightly better performance in step #4 above.) /Daniel Eriksson _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
